Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Brian Kendall +2 more
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The origin of life on earth requires the synthesis of protobiopolymers in realistic geologic environments along strictly abiotic pathways that rely on inorganic phases (such as minerals) instead of cellular machinery to promote condensation.
Vincent S. Riggi +3 more
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Polygonal networks occur on various terrestrial and extraterrestrial surfaces holding valuable information on the pedological and climatological conditions under which they develop.
Christof Sager +3 more
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Free Energies of Reaction for Aqueous Glycine Condensation Chemistry at Extreme Temperatures
This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Matthew Kroonblawd, Nir Goldman
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Astrobiology is the field of science devoted to searching for life elsewhere in the Universe. It is inherently interdisciplinary, integrating results from multiple fields of science, and in this respect has strong synergies with ‘big history’.
Ian A. Crawford
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Learning Astrobiology 101 with experiments in Baja California, Mexico [PDF]
We present our experience teaching the subject ‘Astrobiology 101’ (“Introducción a la Astrobiología”, in Spanish), given in the University of Baja California at Ensenada, Mexico, since 2004 up to the present.
Vázquez Roberto, Núñez Patricia G.
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Extremophiles: Link between earth and astrobiology [PDF]
Astrobiology studies the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe. The most promising worlds in Solar system, beyond Earth, which may harbor life are Mars and Jovian moon Europa.
Stojanović Dejan B. +5 more
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Metagenomic insights into S(0) precipitation in a terrestrial subsurface lithoautotrophic ecosystem
The Frasassi and Acquasanta Terme cave systems in Italy host isolated lithoautotrophic ecosystems characterized by sulfur-oxidizing biofilms with up to 50% S(0) by mass.
Trinity eHamilton +6 more
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The Martian subsurface is more favorable for organic preservation than its surface because of the shielding effect of rocks from cosmic rays and UV radiation with increasing depth.
Laura J. Bonales +3 more
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Red-edge position of habitable exoplanets around M-dwarfs
One of the possible signs of life on distant habitable exoplanets is the red-edge, which is a rise in the reflectivity of planets between visible and near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths.
Kenji Takizawa +4 more
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