The deep hot biosphere : the myth of fossil fuels /
Deep within the earth's crust there exists a second biosphere, composed of very primitive heat-loving bacteria and containing perhaps more living matter than is present on the earth's entire surface. That is the astounding premise of this new book by Thomas Gold, one of the twentieth centu...
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New York :
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC,
[1999]
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Freeman Dyson
- Our Garden of Eden
- Life at the borders
- The deep-earth gas theory
- Evidence for deep-earth gas
- Resolving the petroleum paradox
- The Siljan experiment
- Extending the theory
- Rethinking earthquakes
- The origin of life
- What next?