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SUBMITTER: Britvin SN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4322360 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20150210
Natural phosphides--the minerals containing phosphorus in a redox state lower than zero--are common constituents of meteorites but virtually unknown on the Earth. Herein we present the first rich occurrence of iron-nickel phosphides of terrestrial origin. Phosphide-bearing rocks are exposed in three localities in the surroundings of the Dead Sea, Levant: in the northern Negev Desert, Israel and Transjordan Plateau, south of Amman, Jordan. Seven minerals from the ternary Fe-Ni-P system have been ...[more]