The Deep Hot Biosphere The Myth of Fossil Fuels

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.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Earth sciences.
Microbiology.
Ecology .
Zoology.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 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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