The Deep Hot Biosphere The Myth of Fossil Fuels / by Thomas Gold.

This book sets forth a set of truly controversial and astonishing theories: First, it proposes that below the surface of the earth is a biosphere of greater mass and volume than the biosphere the total sum of living things on our planet's continents and in its oceans. Second, it proposes that t...

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Main Author: Gold, Thomas (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Copernicus, 1999.
Edition:1st ed. 1999.
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505 0 |a 1 Our Garden of Eden -- The Narrow Window for Surface Life -- Chemical Energy for Subsurface Life -- A Preview of This Book -- 2 Life at the Borders -- Energy Deep in the Earth -- The Ecology of Deep-Ocean Vent Life -- Other Borderland Ecologies -- Deep Is Desirable -- Beneath the Borderlands -- 3 The Deep-Earth Gas Theory -- The Origin of Petroleum: Two Conflicting Theories -- Five Assumptions Underlying the Deep-Earth Gas Theory -- 4 Evidence for Deep-Earth Gas -- Petroleum Reservoirs That Refill -- Clues in the Carbonate Record -- The Association of Helium with Hydrocarbons -- 5 Resolving the Petroleum Paradox -- The Deep Hot Biosphere Solution -- Biological Molecules in Non-Biological Petroleum -- The Upwelling Theory of Coal Formation -- Evidence for the Upwelling Theory -- An Exemption for Peat -- 6 The Siljan Experiment -- Drilling in Swedish Granite -- Magnetite and Microbial Geology -- 7 Extending the Theory -- The Origin of Diamonds -- A New Explanation for Concentrated Metal Deposits -- 8 Rethinking Earthquakes -- Mud Volcanoes -- A Challenge to Earthquake Theory -- Eyewitness Accounts -- Earthquake Spots and Earth Mounds -- Upwelling Deep Gas as the Cause of Earthquakes -- 9 The Origin of Life -- The Habitability of Surface and Subsurface Realms -- The Enhanced Probability for Life’s Origin -- Darwin’s Dilemma -- 10 What Next? -- Microbial Investigations -- Prospects for Extraterrestrial Surface Life -- Deepening the Search for Extraterrestrial Life -- Independent Beginnings or Panspermia? -- Afterword to the Paperback Edition -- Notes -- Acknowledgments. 
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