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Seamounts are mostly volcanic in nature and therefore are found on oceanic crust, having being formed near mid-ocean spreading ridges, over upwelling plumes and in island-arc convergent settings.
Seamount 2008
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I doubt that producing little localized collections of pre-biotic soup around island-arc volcanoes can produce anything remotely close to the amount of primordial soup needed to overcome the odds facing the chemical production of life.
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Busà, T. (2001) Transition of Mount Etna lavas from a mantle-plume to an island-arc magmatic source.
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The Bayugo Project is a porphyry-hosted copper/gold occurrence located in an island-arc setting, located in the island of Mindanao, Philippines, approximately one kilometre northwest of the Boyongan copper/gold deposit.
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The Bayugo Project is a porphyry-hosted copper/gold occurrence located in an island-arc setting, located in the island of Mindanao, Philippines, approximately one kilometre northwest of the Boyongan copper/gold deposit.
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The Bayugo Project is a porphyry-hosted copper/gold occurrence located in an island-arc setting, located in the island of Mindanao, Philippines, approximately one kilometre northwest of the Boyongan copper/gold deposit.
unknown title 2009
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