Staging Life in an Early Warm ‘Seltzer’ Ocean
Abstract
A period as short as 20 million years within the first 100 million years after the formation of the Moon may have set the stage for the origin of life. This atmosphere contained more carbon dioxide than any other period afterwards. The carbon dioxide sustained greenhouse conditions, accelerated the weathering of a primitive crust and may have led to conditions conducive to the formation of the building blocks of life. The conversion of CO2 as well as N2 may have been facilitated by clays, zeolites, sulfides and metal alloys formed as the crust reacted with a warm ‘seltzer’ ocean. We used geochemical modeling to constrain the conditions favorable for the formation of these potential mineral catalysts.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1336151
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-112655-2016-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 1811-5209
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC00112704
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Elements
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1811-5209
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 58 GEOSCIENCES
Citation Formats
Schoonen, Martin, and Smirnov, Alexander. Staging Life in an Early Warm ‘Seltzer’ Ocean. United States: N. p., 2016.
Web. doi:10.2113/gselements.12.6.395.
Schoonen, Martin, & Smirnov, Alexander. Staging Life in an Early Warm ‘Seltzer’ Ocean. United States. https://doi.org/10.2113/gselements.12.6.395
Schoonen, Martin, and Smirnov, Alexander. Thu .
"Staging Life in an Early Warm ‘Seltzer’ Ocean". United States. https://doi.org/10.2113/gselements.12.6.395. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1336151.
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title = {Staging Life in an Early Warm ‘Seltzer’ Ocean},
author = {Schoonen, Martin and Smirnov, Alexander},
abstractNote = {A period as short as 20 million years within the first 100 million years after the formation of the Moon may have set the stage for the origin of life. This atmosphere contained more carbon dioxide than any other period afterwards. The carbon dioxide sustained greenhouse conditions, accelerated the weathering of a primitive crust and may have led to conditions conducive to the formation of the building blocks of life. The conversion of CO2 as well as N2 may have been facilitated by clays, zeolites, sulfides and metal alloys formed as the crust reacted with a warm ‘seltzer’ ocean. We used geochemical modeling to constrain the conditions favorable for the formation of these potential mineral catalysts.},
doi = {10.2113/gselements.12.6.395},
journal = {Elements},
number = 6,
volume = 12,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}
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