Hot spring sulfur accumulation at Ōwakudani in Hakone (IMAGE)

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Hot spring sulfur accumulation at Ōwakudani in Hakone

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Sulfur is often associated with volcanic degassing, and accumulations like this one may have been important in the start of metabolism.

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Shawn McGlynn, ELSI.

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