Hydrogeologic Controls on Episodic H2 Release from Precambrian Fractured Rocks—Energy for Deep Subsurface Life on Earth and Mars

Keywords

Precambrian, Abiogenic petroleum origin, Geology, Geochemistry, Archean

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