The naked planet Earth: Most essential pre-requisite for the origin and evolution of life

Geoscience Frontiers

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 141-165

  Maruyama, S ^a   Ikoma, M ^b   Genda, H ^b   Hirose, K ^a   Yokoyama, T ^a   Santosh, M ^c,d  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^d KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Earth; Habitable planet; Initial ocean mass; Life; Metazoan; Nutrients

Indexed keywords

ANORTHOSITE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; EARLY EARTH; FORMATION MECHANISM; GRANITE; HADEAN; MAGMA; METAZOAN; NUTRIENT; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PH; PHANEROZOIC; PHOSPHORUS; PLATE TECTONICS; POTASSIUM;

ANIMALIA; METAZOA;

EID: 84874108017     PISSN: 16749871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gsf.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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