Shallow #SodaLakes show promise as cradles of life on Earth https://phys.org/news/2024-01-shallow-soda-lakes-cradles-life.html
Biogeochemical explanations for the world’s most phosphate-rich lake, an origin-of-life analog https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01192-8
"You have this seemingly dry salt flat, but there are nooks and crannies. And between the salt and the sediment there are little pockets of water that are really high in dissolved #phosphate. When could this happen on the #AncientEarth, in order to provide a cradle for the #OriginOfLife?"