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List of works by Stephen J. Mojzsis

A Model Earth-sized Planet in the Habitable Zone of α Centauri A/B

A legacy of Hadean silicate differentiation inferred from Hf isotopes in Eoarchean rocks of the Nuvvuagittuq supracrustal belt (Québec, Canada)

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A new estimate for the age of highly-siderophile element retention in the lunar mantle from late accretion

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A search for thermal excursions from ancient extraterrestrial impacts using Hadean zircon Ti-U-Th-Pb depth profiles

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Abodes for life in carbonaceous asteroids?

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Aerobic bacterial pyrite oxidation and acid rock drainage during the Great Oxidation Event

scientific article published on 19 October 2011

Ancient graphite in the Eoarchean quartz–pyroxene rocks from Akilia in southern West Greenland I: Petrographic and spectroscopic characterization

scholarly article by Dominic Papineau et al published October 2010 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Biogenesis of the Neoproterozoic kremydilite manganese ores from Urucum (Brazil) – A new manganese ore type

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Carbonate "Rosettes" in Xenoliths from Spitzbergen: SIMS Analysis of O and C Isotope Ratios in a Potential Terrestrial Analogue to Martian Meteorite ALH84001

abstract #2032 for the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference #30

Catalytic Synthesis of Polyribonucleic Acid on Prebiotic Rock Glasses

scientific article published in June 2022

Cobalt and marine redox evolution

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Combined147,146Sm-143,142Nd constraints on the longevity and residence time of early terrestrial crust

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Component geochronology in the polyphase ca. 3920Ma Acasta Gneiss

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Composition and structure of microbial communities from stromatolites of Hamelin Pool in Shark Bay, Western Australia

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Connecting exoplanet mantle mineralogy to surface dynamic regime

scientific article published on 11 March 2024

Constraints on Hadean zircon protoliths from oxygen isotopes, Ti-thermometry, and rare earth elements

Eoarchean subduction-like magmatism recorded in 3750 Ma mafic–ultramafic rocks of the Ukaliq supracrustal belt (Québec)

scientific article published in March 2022

Eoarchean subduction-like magmatism recorded in ca. 3750 Ma mafic-ultramafic rocks of the Ukaliq supracrus-tal belt (Québec)

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Evaluating an impact origin for Mercury's high-magnesium region

scholarly article by Elizabeth A. Frank et al published March 2017 in Journal of geophysical research. Planets

Extinct 244Pu in ancient zircons

scientific article published in October 2004

Front Cover: Spontaneous Formation of Prebiotic Compartment Colonies on Hadean Earth and Pre‐Noachian Mars (ChemSystemsChem 3/2022)

journal cover photo published on 22 April 2022

Geoastronomy: Rocky planets as the Lavosier-Lomonosov Bridge from the non-living to the living world

scientific article published on 27 March 2022

Geochemistry of pyrite from diamictites of the Boolgeeda Iron Formation, Western Australia with implications for the GOE and Paleoproterozoic ice ages

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Global change: probing early atmospheres

scientific article published in September 2003

Habitable potentials

scientific article published on 2 November 2021

Hafnium isotope evidence from Archean granitic rocks for deep-mantle origin of continental crust

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Heavy bombardment of the Earth at ~3.85 Ga: The search for petrographic and geochemical evidence

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Inherited 142Nd anomalies in Eoarchean protoliths

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Late accretion to the Moon recorded in zircon (U–Th)/He thermochronometry

scholarly article by Nigel M. Kelly et al published January 2018 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Lu–Hf isotope systematics of the Hadean–Eoarchean Acasta Gneiss Complex (Northwest Territories, Canada)

scholarly article by Martin Guitreau et al published June 2014 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Microbial habitability of the Hadean Earth during the late heavy bombardment

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Multiple sulfur isotopes from Paleoproterozoic Huronian interglacial sediments and the rise of atmospheric oxygen

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Onset of Giant Planet Migration before 4480 Million Years Ago

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Plausible Constraints on the Range of Bulk Terrestrial Exoplanet Compositions in the Solar Neighborhood

scientific article published in May 2023

Possible Eoarchean Records of the Geomagnetic Field Preserved in the Isua Supracrustal Belt, Southern West Greenland

scientific article published in April 2024

Pu–Xe, U–Xe, U–Pb chronology and isotope systematics of ancient zircons from Western Australia

scientific article published in September 2007

Reappraisal of purported ca. 3.7 Ga stromatolites from the Isua Supracrustal Belt (West Greenland) from detailed chemical and structural analysis

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Recipes for a Hadean Earth

scientific article published on 8 March 2024

Reduced, reused and recycled: Detrital zircons define a maximum age for the Eoarchean (ca. 3750–3780Ma) Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt, Québec (Canada)

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Reply: The Isua (Greenland) “relict stromatolites” cannot be confidently interpreted as original sedimentary structures

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Spontaneous Formation of Prebiotic Compartment Colonies on Hadean Earth and Pre‐Noachian Mars

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Spontaneous Formation of Prebiotic Compartment Colonies on Hadean Earth and Pre‐Noachian Mars

cover profile of a scientific article

Sulfur isotopic compositions of individual sulfides in Martian meteorites ALH84001 and Nakhla: implications for crust–regolith exchange on Mars

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Supply of phosphate to early Earth by photogeochemistry after meteoritic weathering

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

The Assean Lake Complex

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The Great Mars Climate Paradox Redux: REPLY

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The Martian subsurface as a potential window into the origin of life

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The composition of Earth's oldest iron formations: The Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt (Québec, Canada)

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The effects of terrestrial exoplanet bulk composition on long-term planetary evolution

scientific article published on 2 May 2024

The impact environment of the Hadean Earth

scientific article published in October 2013

Thermal consequences of impact bombardments to silicate crusts of terrestrial-type exoplanets

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Thermodynamics, Disequilibrium, Evolution: Far-From-Equilibrium Geological and Chemical Considerations for Origin-Of-Life Research

scientific article published on 6 June 2016

Total stellar irradiance and lithophile element devolatilization trends for the terrestrial planets

scientific article published on 15 May 2023

Tracing the Early Emergence of Microbial Sulfur Metabolisms

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When Did Life Likely Emerge on Earth in an RNA‐First Process?

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Whence the demise and fall of the RNA World?

scientific article published on 8 March 2024

Widespread poly-metamorphosed Archean granitoid gneisses and supracrustal enclaves of the southern Inukjuak Domain, Québec (Canada)

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