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Earth's Early Atmosphere and Oceans, and The Origin of Life

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the chemical nature of the Earth's early surface environment and how that led to the origin of life,including a detailed discussion of the likely process by which life emerged using as much quantitative information as possible. The emergence of li...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shaw, George H. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Colección:SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Accretional history of Earth
  • Processes of degassing
  • Atmospheric processing of degassed volatiles
  • Early Archean "geography"
  • Degassing processes
  • Prebiotic chemistry - why we should pay attention to this
  • Eigen's hypercycle and the emergence of life
  • How the carbon-rich surface is key to emergence of life
  • Evolution of Earth starting with a carbon-rich surface
  • Implications of this model
  • Conclusions.