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Planetary Conditions at the Hadean and Archean Transition : Possible Scenarios for the Origin of Life.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Earth Sciences in the 21st CenturyPublisher: Hauppauge : Nova Science Publishers, Incorporated, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (102 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781620814888
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Planetary Conditions at the Hadean and Archean Transition: Possible Scenarios for the Origin of LifeDDC classification:
  • 576.8/3
LOC classification:
  • QH325 -- .P487 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- PLANETARY CONDITIONS AT THE HADEAN AND ARCHEAN TRANSITION: POSSIBLE SCENARIOS FOR THE ORIGIN OF LIFE -- PLANETARY CONDITIONS AT THE HADEAN AND ARCHEAN TRANSITION: POSSIBLE SCENARIOS FOR THE ORIGIN OF LIFE -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 2: HADEAN EARTH -- 2.1. TEMPORAL LIMITS -- 2.2. MAGMA OCEAN -- 2.3. LATE HEAVY BOMBARDMENT -- 2.4. REDOX STATE OF THE PRIMITIVE MANTLE -- 2.5. PRIMITIVE LITHOSPHERE -- 2.6. PLATE TECTONICS AND MINERAL EVOLUTION -- Chapter 3: GEOPHYSICAL ASPECTS OF EARTH'S PRIMITIVE OUTER LAYERS -- 3.1. INTRODUCTION -- 3.2. THE YOUNG FAINT SUN PARADOX -- 3.3. THE EARTH'S EARLY MAGNETOSPHERE -- 3.4. COSMIC RAYS AND THE EARLY EARTH -- 3.5. HYDROSPHERE -- 3.6. ATMOSPHERE -- Chapter 4: THE CHEMICAL APPROACH TO THE ORIGIN OF LIFE -- 4.1. THE HETEROTROPHIC HYPOTHESIS -- 4.2. AUTOTROPHIC HYPOTHESIS -- 4.3. ENERGY AND MATTER ON EARLY EARTH -- 4.3.1. Energy Sources of Early Earth -- 4.3.2. Organic Matter Sources -- 4.4. STABILITY OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS IN THE PRIMITIVE EARTH -- 4.5. CHEMICAL COMPONENTS IN CONTEMPORARY LIFE -- 4.6. PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY -- 4.6.1. The Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis -- 4.6.2. Simulated Experiments -- 4.6.3. RNA World -- 4.6.4. Thioester World -- 4.6.5. Pre-Rna World -- 4.6.6. Clay Theory -- 4.6.7. Thermal Vents -- 4.7. THE OPTICAL ACTIVITY PROBLEM -- 4.8. REMARKS -- Chapter 5: PRE-CELLULAR SYSTEMS AND FIRST ORGANISMS -- 5.1. EARLIEST FOSSILS AND PALEONTOLOGY -- Chapter 6: DISCUSSION -- REFLECTIONS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF DIFFERENT ENERGY SOURCES -- WHEN AND WHERE LIFE ORIGINATED ON EARTH? -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
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Intro -- PLANETARY CONDITIONS AT THE HADEAN AND ARCHEAN TRANSITION: POSSIBLE SCENARIOS FOR THE ORIGIN OF LIFE -- PLANETARY CONDITIONS AT THE HADEAN AND ARCHEAN TRANSITION: POSSIBLE SCENARIOS FOR THE ORIGIN OF LIFE -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 2: HADEAN EARTH -- 2.1. TEMPORAL LIMITS -- 2.2. MAGMA OCEAN -- 2.3. LATE HEAVY BOMBARDMENT -- 2.4. REDOX STATE OF THE PRIMITIVE MANTLE -- 2.5. PRIMITIVE LITHOSPHERE -- 2.6. PLATE TECTONICS AND MINERAL EVOLUTION -- Chapter 3: GEOPHYSICAL ASPECTS OF EARTH'S PRIMITIVE OUTER LAYERS -- 3.1. INTRODUCTION -- 3.2. THE YOUNG FAINT SUN PARADOX -- 3.3. THE EARTH'S EARLY MAGNETOSPHERE -- 3.4. COSMIC RAYS AND THE EARLY EARTH -- 3.5. HYDROSPHERE -- 3.6. ATMOSPHERE -- Chapter 4: THE CHEMICAL APPROACH TO THE ORIGIN OF LIFE -- 4.1. THE HETEROTROPHIC HYPOTHESIS -- 4.2. AUTOTROPHIC HYPOTHESIS -- 4.3. ENERGY AND MATTER ON EARLY EARTH -- 4.3.1. Energy Sources of Early Earth -- 4.3.2. Organic Matter Sources -- 4.4. STABILITY OF ORGANIC COMPOUNDS IN THE PRIMITIVE EARTH -- 4.5. CHEMICAL COMPONENTS IN CONTEMPORARY LIFE -- 4.6. PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY -- 4.6.1. The Oparin-Haldane Hypothesis -- 4.6.2. Simulated Experiments -- 4.6.3. RNA World -- 4.6.4. Thioester World -- 4.6.5. Pre-Rna World -- 4.6.6. Clay Theory -- 4.6.7. Thermal Vents -- 4.7. THE OPTICAL ACTIVITY PROBLEM -- 4.8. REMARKS -- Chapter 5: PRE-CELLULAR SYSTEMS AND FIRST ORGANISMS -- 5.1. EARLIEST FOSSILS AND PALEONTOLOGY -- Chapter 6: DISCUSSION -- REFLECTIONS ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF DIFFERENT ENERGY SOURCES -- WHEN AND WHERE LIFE ORIGINATED ON EARTH? -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

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