Methane, water, quartz, siderite, hematite, and possibly greenalite and sodium hydroxide in a BARB3 drilled sample of the 3.4 Ga Buck ReefChert. Crustal anoxic alkaline high subcritical water at the origin of the observed ferric minerals, methane and disordered graphitic carbon, and of plausible molecules of life
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