Earth’s carbon points to planetary smashup

Further evidence about the Earth being struck by a large, Mercury size object in the early life of the Solar System

Research by Rice University Earth scientists suggests that virtually all of Earth’s life-giving carbon could have come from a collision about 4.4 billion years ago between Earth and an embryonic planet similar to Mercury.

In a new study this week in Nature Geoscience, Rice petrologist Rajdeep Dasgupta and colleagues offer a new answer to a long-debated geological question: How did carbon-based life develop on Earth, given that most of the planet’s carbon should have either boiled away in the planet’s earliest days or become locked in Earth’s ?

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2016-09-earth-carbon-planetary-smashup.html

 

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