NOTTINGHAM, Pa. — When the sky turned to ash in summers past above the Nottingham Serpentine Barrens, the locals knew that flames were again tearing through the lanky pine and prickly greenbriar. The ...

After careful examination of the geology and environment of Earth in its early days, a group of Stanford geologists theorized that life may have originated above serpentinite rock at the bottom of the ...

A new study has identified serpentinite -- a green rock that looks a bit like snakeskin and holds fluids in its mineral structures -- as a key driver of the oxygen recycling process, which helped ...

NOTTINGHAM, Pa. -- When the sky turned to ash in summers past above the Nottingham Serpentine Barrens, the locals knew that flames were again tearing through the lanky pine and prickly green briar.

Serpentine soils contain highly variable amounts of calcium, making them marginal lands for farming. Successful management of serpentine soils requires accurate measurement of the calcium they hold.

In the upper two panels show modelling results of the contamination of depleted mantle (DM, yellow stars) by (1) serpentinite-derived fluids, and by (2) fluids derived from the slab crust materials.