Radioactivity as a Significant Energy Source in Prebiotic Synthesis
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Discover Life
- Vol. 31 (1/2) , 3-13
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1006664230212
Abstract
Radioactivity in the continental crust (due mainly to the isotopes 238U,235U, 232Th and 40K), as a energysource for chemical evolution in the early Archean (between 3.5 and ≈4 Ga bp), is reviewed.The...Keywords
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