Reply to Bada: Acidity and fluid composition on the Tagish Lake parent body

A comment from Bada (1) attempts to flag multiple issues with our recent study (2). We appreciate the opportunity to respond, as Bada raises some interesting points, but many of his comments appear to overinterpret our results in a manner well beyond the scope of our original study. We believe Bada&...

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Main Authors: White, Lee F., Tait, Kimberly T., Langelier, Brian, Lymer, Elizabeth A., ÄŒernok, Ana, Kizovski, Tanya V., Ma, Chi, Tschauner, Oliver, Nicklin, Richard I.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2020
Subjects:
Tagish
Tagish Lake
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2014548117
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/PMC7502753
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Summary:A comment from Bada (1) attempts to flag multiple issues with our recent study (2). We appreciate the opportunity to respond, as Bada raises some interesting points, but many of his comments appear to overinterpret our results in a manner well beyond the scope of our original study. We believe Bada's comments (1) can be broadly grouped into two key points for discussion: 1) the calculation used to yield the racemization timeline and 2) issues with our final conclusion. © 2020 The Author(s). Published under the PNAS license. Author contributions: L.F.W., K.T.T., B.L., E.A.L., A.C., T.V.K., C.M., O.T., and R.I.N. wrote the paper. The authors declare no competing interest. Published - 22650.full.pdf

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