Somewhat ironic if we've being wondering how life apparently got a foothold so quickly on an Hadean/Archean Earth being pummeled by massive impacts, and those impacts, by catalyzing widespread hydrothermal circulation throughout the upper crust, are actually a big part of the reason.
The fact that we are reaching the limits of using current inventory to buffer the supply shock may explain why the pugilism and threats seem to be ramping up again.
Our glorious scipub future is apparently one where the only peers the AI “editing” system will accept are LLMs.
As at least a partial validation of modeling of long-destroyed crust in that study, new data from the Chicxulub crater indicate that widespread hydrothermal circulation throughout the shattered rock persisted for at least 8 million years after the Cretaceous-ending impact.
🧪⚒️ What did the massive flux of large impacts do the Early Earth's crust? "the upper 8 km shell...may have been made highly permeable by impacts prior to 4.3 Ga...a significant portion of this volume would have been permeable until 3.5 Ga - likely leading to prolonged hydrothermal activity."
Never pass up the chance to re up a delicious ternary diagram:
EV Nautilus found one back in 2016: m.youtube.com/watch?v=M4kn...
Scientific publishing has “make people provide their intellectual labour for free, then charge them for it” as a foundational concept, so it’s sad but not exactly surprising that they’re all in on the “steal everyone’s work and then charge for regurgitating it” machines. They were primed for it.
⚒️ I’m amazed by the totally fossilised whale bones just lying on the surface! A total decoupling of mineralisation from sedimentation (because the sedimentation rate is so low)!
If you’re trying to understand why oil prices have not kept rising as the Gulf of Hormuz has remained closed, this is a good starting point. Existing inventory and strategic reserves have served their purpose, but only for so long. resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2026/06/our-oi…