Earth's earliest biosphere : its origin and evolution / edited by J. William Schopf.

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Book
Language
English
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1983.
Description
xxv, 543 pages, 36 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

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      Notes
      Includes index.
      Bibliographic references
      Bibliography: p. [464]-531.
      Contents
      • How to read this book
      • Early biogeologic history: the emergence of a paradigm / Preston Cloud
      • The nature of the Earth prior to the oldest known rock record: the hadean Earth / David J. Stevenson
      • The early Earth and the archean rock record / W. Gary Ernst
      • Prebiotic organic synthesis and the origin of life / Sherwood Chang, David DesMarais, Ruth Mack, Stanley L. Miller, and Gary E. Strathearn
      • Precambrian organic geochemistry, preservation of the record / J. M. Hayes, Isaac R. Kaplan, and Kim W. Wedeking
      • Biochemical evolution of anaerobic energy conversion: the transition from fermentation to anoxygenic photosynthesis / Howard Gest and J. William Schopf
      • Isotopic inferences of ancient biochemistries: carbon, sulfur, hydrogen, and nitrogen / Manfred Schindlowski, J. M. Hayes, and Isaac R. Kaplan
      • Archean stromatolites: evidence of the Earth's earliest benthos / Malcolm R. Walter
      • Archean microfossils: new evidence of ancient microbes / J. William Schopf and Malcolm R. Walter
      • Geologic evolution of the archean-early proterozoic Earth / Jàn Veizer - Environmental evolution of the archean-early proterozoic Earth / James C. G. Walker, Cornelius Klein, Manfred Schidlowski, J. William Schopf, David J. Stevenson, and Malcolm R. Walter
      • Geochemical evidence bearing on the origin of aerobiosis, a speculative hypothesis / J. M. Hayes
      • Biological and biochemical effects of the development of an aerobic environment / David J. Chapman and J. William Schopf
      • Early proterozoic microfossils / Hans J. Hofmann and J. William Schopf
      • Evolution of Earth's earliest ecosystems: recent progress and unsolved problems / J. William Schopf, J. M. Hayes, and Malcolm R. Walter
      • Appendix I
      • Geographic and geologic data for processed rock samples / Malcolm R. Walter, Hans J. Hofmann, and J. William Schopf
      • Appendix II
      • Flow chart and processing procedure for rock samples / J. William Schopf, J. M. Hayes, Udo Matzigkeit, Malcolm R. Walter, and Kim W. Wedeking
      • Appendix III
      • Processing procedure for abiotic samples and calculation of model atmospheric compositions / David DesMarais and Sherwood Chang
      • Appendix IV
      • Procedures of organic geochemical analysis / Kim W. Wedeking, J. M. Hayes, and Udo Matzigkeit
      • Glossary I
      • Technical terms / J. William Schopf
      • Glossary II
      • Terms used to describe biological energy conservations, electron transport processes, interactions of cellular systems with molecular oxygen, and carbon nutrition / David J. Chapman and Howard Gest.
      ISBN
      • 0691083231 ((alk. paper))
      • 9780691083230 ((alk. paper))
      • 0691023751 ((pbk.))
      • 9780691023755 ((pbk.))
      LCCN
      82061383
      OCLC
      9280890
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