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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cham :
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
2016.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016. |
| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Earth Sciences,
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| Online Access: | Texto Completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.