https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/science/mantle-core-drill-ocean.html

Researchers have long argued that regions
deep in the Earth’s oceans may harbor sites
from which all terrestrial life sprung. In
the Atlantic, they gave the name “Lost City”
to a jagged landscape of eerie spires under
which they proposed that the life-preceding
chemistry may have churned.

And now for the first time, specialists have
succeeded in getting a glimpse of this
potential Garden of Eden.

A report in the journal Science on Thursday
tells of a 30-person team drilling deep into
a region of the Mid-Atlantic seabed and
pulling up nearly a mile of extremely rare
rocky material. Never before has a sample so
massive and from such a great depth come to
light. The material is central to a major
theory on the origin of life.

“We did it,” said Frieder Klein, an expedition
team member at the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institution on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. “We
now have a treasure trove of rocks that will
let us systematically study the processes that
people believe are relevant to the emergence
of life on the planet.”
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