Buried beginnings

Christopher Chyba ()
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Nature, 1998, vol. 395, issue 6700, 329-330

Abstract: Did life begin on Earth near the surface, where sunlight can be harvested? Or at subsurface hydrothermal systems? Contributions from both environments might have been required, according to a study that shows how ammonia could have been produced in large quantities at hydrothermal vents.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/26357

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