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Tables of Contents for The Deep Hot Biosphere
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
vii
Freeman Dyson
Our Garden of Eden
1
10
The Narrow Window for Surface Life
2
2
Chemical Energy for Subsurface Life
4
3
A Preview of This Book
7
4
Life at the Borders
11
26
Energy Deep in the Earth
13
6
The Ecology of Deep-Ocean Vent Life
19
4
Other Borderland Ecologies
23
4
Deep Is Desirable
27
3
Beneath the Borderlands
30
7
The Deep-Earth Gas Theory
37
20
The Origin of Petroleum: Two Conflicting Theories
38
5
Five Assumptions Underlying the Deep-Earth Gas Theory
43
14
Evidence for Deep-Earth Gas
57
22
Petroleum Reservoirs That Refill
59
2
Clues in the Carbonate Record
61
11
The Association of Helium with Hydrocarbons
72
7
Resolving the Petroleum Paradox
79
26
The Deep Hot Biosphere Solution
80
2
Biological Molecules in Non-Biological Petroleum
82
4
The Upwelling Theory of Coal Formation
86
8
Evidence for the Upwelling Theory
94
6
An Exemption for Peat
100
5
The Siljan Experiment
105
20
Drilling in Swedish Granite
107
7
Magnetite and Microbial Geology
114
11
Extending the Theory
125
16
The Origin of Diamonds
127
4
A New Explanation for Concentrated Metal Deposits
131
10
Rethinking Earthquakes
141
24
Mud Volcanoes
142
1
A Challenge to Earthquake Theory
143
2
Eyewitness Accounts
145
11
Earthquake Spots and Earth Mounds
156
3
Upwelling Deep Gas as the Cause of Earthquakes
159
6
The Origin of Life
165
20
The Habitability of Surface and Subsurface Realms
166
4
The Enhanced Probability for Life's Origin
170
6
Darwin's Dilemma
176
9
What Next?
185
24
Microbial Investigations
188
5
Prospects for Extraterestrial Surface Life
193
8
Deepening the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
201
4
Interdependent Beginnings or Panspermia?
205
4
Notes
209
18
Acknowledgments
227
2
Index
229