• DOI:10.1007/BF01808177
Corpus ID: 4613918

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}
}

J. Baross, S. Hoffman

Published 2005

Chemistry

Origins of life and evolution of the biosphere

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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