Submarine hydrothermal vents and associated gradient environments as sites for the origin and evolution of life
@article{Baross2005SubmarineHV, title={Submarine hydrothermal vents and associated gradient environments as sites for the origin and evolution of life}, author={J. Baross and S. Hoffman}, journal={Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere}, year={2005}, volume={15}, pages={327-345} }
Submarine hydrothermal vents are the only comtemporary geological environment which may be called truly primeval; they continue to be a major source of gases and dissolved elements to the modern ocean as they were to the Archean ocean. Then, as now, they encompassed a multiplicity of physical and chemical gradients as a direct result of interactions between extensive hydrothermal activity in the Earth's crust and the overlying oceanic and atmospheric environments. We have proposed that these… CONTINUE READING
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