Mariana serpentinite mud volcanism exhumes subducted seamount materials: implications for the origin of life

Accepted/In Press date: 18 November 2019

e-pub ahead of print date: 6 January 2020

Published date: 21 February 2020

Additional Information: Funding Information: We thank the participants in the Royal Society ?Serpentine in the Earth system? discussion meeting in November 2018 for stimulating discussions on serpentinization in a wide variety of geologic settings, which motivated us to offer this summary of recent Mariana convergent plate margin discoveries and our interpretation of their implications for an alternative to a hydrothermal-vent origin of life on Earth. We are indebted to the conveners of the meeting for inviting this manuscript. Steven Stanley, Geology and Geophysics Department, University of Hawaii at Manoa, confirmed the presence of rudist fossils in video from the NOAA OER Deep Discoverer ROV Dives 4 and 16 and Andrew Lonero, Department of Geology, Utah State University, USA, provided the ICPMS trace element analysis of the metabasites from IODP Sites U1496 and U1498. We thank F. Klein, I.P. Savov and A. McCabe for helpful reviews of the manuscript, and the Captain, crew, and the ROV and science technicians on the R/V Okeanos Explorer for their help and participation on Leg 3 of the NOAA OER ?Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas Expedition,? and the Captain, crew, science technicians, and drilling crew of the D/V JOIDES Resolution for their assistance and participation during IODP Expedition 366. Support for lead scientists? participation on NOAA?s Deepwater Exploration of the Marianas was derived from the NOAA OER. IODP provided support for IODP Expedition 366 shipboard participants. Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.

Keywords: Evolution of life, Exhumed microbes, Mariana trench, Serpentinite mud volcanism, Subducted cretaceous seamounts

Local EPrints ID: 437896

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/437896

DOI: doi:10.1098/rsta.2018.0425

ISSN: 1364-503X

PURE UUID: 2993d2c7-0331-4624-b089-95b9317ae514

Date deposited: 21 Feb 2020 17:31

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