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Figure 2

From: On the origin of life in the Zinc world. 2. Validation of the hypothesis on the photosynthesizing zinc sulfide edifices as cradles of life on Earth

Figure 2

A schematic representation of interweaved haloes made of porous ZnS/MnS (shown as aggregates of grey spheres) around the sub-aerial, hydrothermal hot springs. These networks are proposed to have served as the Earth's first biotopes (see the text and the accompanying article [97]). The picture uses data from refs.[66, 105, 115, 117, 260, 261].

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