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Abiotic Hydrogen and Hydrocarbons in Planetary Lithospheres Guest Editors: Laurent Truche, Thomas M. McCollom, and Isabelle Martinez 13 19 25 33 39 47 Hydrogen and Abiotic Hydrocarbons: Molecules that Change the World Laurent Truche, Thomas M. McCollom, and Isabelle Martinez Abiotic Sources of Molecular Hydrogen on Earth Frieder Klein, Jesse D. Tarnas, and Wolfgang Bach Abiotic Synthesis of Methane and Organic Compounds in Earth’s Lithosphere Eoghan P. Reeves and Jens Fiebig The Behavior of H 2 in Aqueous Fluids under High Temperature and Pressure Elena F. Bazarkina, I-Ming Chou, Alexander F. Goncharov, and Nikolay N. Akinfiev Abiotic Hydrogen and Methane: Fuels for Life Bénédicte Ménez DEPARTMENTS Editorial – The Once and Future Hydrogen Economy ........ 3 From the Editors ................................... 4 Triple Point – Global Flow of Scholarly Publishing and Open Access .................................. 6 Perspective – New Perspectives in the Industrial Exploration for Native Hydrogen ................................ 8 Meet the Authors ................................. 10 Society News International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits . . 53 Mineralogical Society of Poland ...................... 54 Association Internationale pour l’Étude des Argiles ....... 55 Mineralogical Society of America .................... 56 Association of Applied Geochemists .................. 58 Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie .... 59 Mineralogical Association of Canada .................. 60 Clay Minerals Society .............................. 62 Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences ............. 63 Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft ................. 64 International Mineralogical Association ................ 66 Geochemical Society .............................. 67 Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland ........ 68 European Association of Geochemistry ................ 70 Meteoritical Society ............................... 72 CosmoElements – MetBase.org as a Research and Learning Tool for Cosmochemistry ................ 73 Calendar ..........................................76 Job Posting ........................................76 Hydrogen, Hydrocarbons, and Habitability Across the Solar System Christopher R. Glein and Mikhail Yu. Zolotov Moonlight over the hydrogen world. An artist’s view of molecular hydrogen and abiotic hydrocarbon formation on a tectonically active, hospitable, planet and its icy moon. CREDIT: ALICE SIMIONOVICI 1 Elements is published jointly by the Mineralogical Society of America, the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Mineralogical Association of Canada, the Geochemical Society, The Clay Minerals Society, the European Association of Geochemistry, the International Association of GeoChemistry, the Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, the Association of Applied Geochemists, the Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft, the Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, the International Association of Geoanalysts, the Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne (Mineralogical Society of Poland), the Sociedad Española de Mineralogía, the Swiss Society of Mineralogy and Petrology, the Meteoritical Society, the Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences, and the International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits. It is provided as a benefit to members of these societies. Elements is published six times a year. Individuals are encouraged to join any one of the partici- pating societies to receive Elements. Institutional subscribers to any of the following journals— American Mineralogist, Clay Minerals, Mineralogical Magazine, and The Canadian Mineralogist—also receive one copy of Elements as part of their 2020 subscription. Institutional subscriptions are available for US$165 (US$180 non-US addresses) a year in 2020. Contact the executive editor ([email protected]) for information. Copyright 2020 by the Mineralogical Society of America. All rights reserved. Reproduction in any form, including translation to other languages, or by any means—graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying or information storage and retrieval systems—without written permission from the copyright holder is strictly prohibited. Publications mail agreement no. 40037944 Printed in USA ISSN 1811-5209 (print) ISSN 1811-5217 (online) elementsmagazine.org pubs.geoscienceworld.org/elements Volume 16, Number 1 • February 2020

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Abiotic Hydrogen and Hydrocarbons in Planetary LithospheresGuest Editors: Laurent Truche, Thomas M. McCollom, and Isabelle Martinez

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Hydrogen and Abiotic Hydrocarbons: Molecules that Change the WorldLaurent Truche, Thomas M. McCollom, and Isabelle Martinez

Abiotic Sources of Molecular Hydrogen on EarthFrieder Klein, Jesse D. Tarnas, and Wolfgang Bach

Abiotic Synthesis of Methane and Organic Compounds in Earth’s LithosphereEoghan P. Reeves and Jens Fiebig

The Behavior of H2 in Aqueous Fluids under High Temperature and PressureElena F. Bazarkina, I-Ming Chou, Alexander F. Goncharov, and Nikolay N. Akinfiev

Abiotic Hydrogen and Methane: Fuels for LifeBénédicte Ménez

D E P A R T M E N T S

Editorial – The Once and Future Hydrogen Economy . . . . . . . . 3From the Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Triple Point – Global Flow of Scholarly Publishing and Open Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Perspective – New Perspectives in the Industrial Exploration for Native Hydrogen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Meet the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Society News

International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits . . 53Mineralogical Society of Poland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Association Internationale pour l’Étude des Argiles . . . . . . . 55Mineralogical Society of America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Association of Applied Geochemists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie . . . . 59Mineralogical Association of Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Clay Minerals Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64International Mineralogical Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Geochemical Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland . . . . . . . . 68European Association of Geochemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70Meteoritical Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

CosmoElements – MetBase.org as a Research and Learning Tool for Cosmochemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76Job Posting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76

Hydrogen, Hydrocarbons, and Habitability Across the Solar SystemChristopher R. Glein and Mikhail Yu. Zolotov

Moonlight over the hydrogen world. An artist’s view of molecular hydrogen and abiotic hydrocarbon formation on a tectonically active, hospitable, planet and its icy moon. Credit: AliCe SimionoviCi

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Elements is published jointly by the Mineralogical Society of America, the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Mineralogical Association of Canada, the Geochemical Society, The Clay Minerals Society, the European Association of Geochemistry, the Inter national Association of GeoChemistry, the Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, the Association of Applied Geochemists, the Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft, the Società Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia, the International Association of Geoanalysts, the Polskie Towarzystwo Mineralogiczne (Mineralogical Society of Poland), the Sociedad Española de Mineralogía, the Swiss Society of Mineralogy and Petrology, the Meteoritical Society, the Japan Association of Mineralogical Sciences, and the International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits. It is provided as a benefit to members of these societies.

Elements is published six times a year. Individuals are encouraged to join any one of the partici­pating societies to receive Elements. Institutional subscribers to any of the following journals— American Mineralogist, Clay Minerals, Mineralogical Magazine, and The Canadian Miner alogist—also receive one copy of Elements as part of their 2020 subscription. Institu tional subscriptions are available for US$165 (US$180 non­US addresses) a year in 2020. Contact the executive editor ([email protected]) for information.

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