Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Marine Hydrothermal Systems and the Origin of Life

Report of SCOR Working Group 91

  • Book
  • © 1992

Overview

Editors:
  1. N. G. Holm

    1. Dept. of Geology and Geochemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-3
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Why are Hydrothermal Systems Proposed as Plausible Environments for the Origin of Life?

    • Nils G. Holm
    Pages 5-14

  3. Hydrothermal Systems: Their Varieties, Dynamics, and Suitability for Prebiotic Chemistry

    • Nils G. Holm, Remy J.-C. Hennet
    Pages 15-31

  4. Modern Life at High Temperatures

    • Roy M. Daniel
    Pages 33-42

  5. Aqueous Organic Geochemistry at High Temperature/High Pressure

    • Bernd R. T. Simoneit
    Pages 43-65

  6. Chemical Environments of Submarine Hydrothermal Systems

    • Everett L. Shock
    Pages 67-107

  7. Chemical Markers of Prebiotic Chemistry in Hydrothermal Systems

    • James P. Ferris
    Pages 109-134

  8. Hydrothermal Organic Synthesis Experiments

    • Everett L. Shock
    Pages 135-146

  9. An Experimental Approach to Chemical Evolution in Submarine Hydrothermal Systems

    • Hiroshi Yanagawa, Kensei Kobayashi
    Pages 147-159

  10. Mineral Theories of the Origin of Life and an Iron Sulfide Example

    • A. Graham Cairns-Smith, Alan J. Hall, Michael J. Russell
    Pages 161-180

  11. Future Research

    • Nils G. Holm, A. Graham Cairns-Smith, Roy M. Daniel, James P. Ferris, Remy J.-C. Hennet, Everett L. Shock et al.
    Pages 181-190

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 191-250
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Research of the origins of life in connection with a marine environment started at the end of the seventies, when the `black smokers' in the Pacific were discovered and the Red Sea deep hydrothermal brines were found to be a fruitful environment for abiotic synthesis of life precursors. For a while this research was categorised under the heading `chemistry', but in less than a decade the topic became fully integrated into the science of 'oceanography'. The Scientific Committee on Oceanographic Research (SCOR) initiated Working Group 91: Chemical Evolution and Origin of Life in Marine Hydrothermal Systems'. This volume contains the final report of this working group.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Geology and Geochemistry, Stockholm University, Sweden

    N. G. Holm

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Marine Hydrothermal Systems and the Origin of Life

  • Book Subtitle: Report of SCOR Working Group 91

  • Editors: N. G. Holm

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2741-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2018-0Published: 30 November 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5216-0Published: 18 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2741-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: III, 250

  • Topics: Geochemistry, Oceanography, Biochemistry, general

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation