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A schematic representation of interweaved haloes made of porous ZnS/MnS (shown as aggregates of grey spheres) around the sub-aerial, hydrothermal hot springs. These networks are proposed to have served as the Earth's first biotopes (see the text and the accompanying article [97]). The picture uses data from refs. [66,105,115,117,260,261].
