This produced an ancient rain of minute, rusty particles to accumulate on ancient ocean floors that is found today as bands
of haematite in rock.
Not exact matches
Simandou is a major new, high quality
haematite deposit (with a targeted grade
of 65 per cent iron) in proximity to the Atlantic Basin and the Middle East.
Shining blue light on the particles caused the
haematite cubes to catalyse the breakdown
of nearby hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen.
It is generally agreed that Mars's colour is the result
of a black form
of iron called magnetite oxidising into the reddish - orange form called
haematite.
NASA determined that they are made
of an iron - rich mineral called
haematite and others pointed out that similar marbles were to be found on Earth.
This is in accordance with the bottom - up modelling
of ωo based on the
haematite content in desert dust sources (Claquin et al., 1999; Shi et al., 2005).