Changeable hydrothermal media as potential cradle of life on a planet

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 468-476

  Kompanichenko, V N ^a,b  

^a Institute of Complex Analysis of Regional Problems   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Hydrothermal system; Nonequilibrium conditions; Origin of life

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS MEDIAS; BIFURCATION; CHEMICAL FLUCTUATIONS; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CRITICAL PROPERTIES; ENERGY INPUTS; HYDROTHERMAL FIELDS; HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEM; KAMCHATKA; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LIFE PROCESS; MUTNOVSKY; NON EQUILIBRIUMS; NONEQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS; ORGANIC SYNTHESIS; ORIGIN-OF-LIFE; PHYSICO CHEMICALS; PREBIOTIC; SLOVENIA; UNSTABLE STATE; WATER PRESSURES;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); FREE ENERGY; MOTION ESTIMATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

MICROSYSTEMS;

EID: 63949087316     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2008.09.013     Document Type: Article

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