In an editorial in the journal Nature, a group of geologists from the United States, China and Australia make the case for storing and sharing ancient rocks.
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“Too often,” they write, “rock samples are not archived or shared. It is common for samples to be held by researchers in private collections instead of in accessible, curated institutional archives or museums. That’s a problem, because different geoscience teams cannot check each other’s work to test whether published results are robust and can be replicated.”
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