Phanerozoic submarine cold vent biota and its exobiological potential

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Aug 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001esasp.496..295b&link_type=abstract

In: Exo-/astro-biology. Proceedings of the First European Workshop, 21 - 23 May 2001, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy. Eds.: P. Ehrenfreu

Biology

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Exobiology, Solar System

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Modern and fossil chemosynthetic communities based on the consumption of gases (carbon dioxide, methane, hydrogen sulfide, and others) are widespread on the Earth surface, where they have produced geologic bodies distributed over a wide time slice. These communities are entirely sustained by gas-bearing cold fluids, coming to the surface from the upper crust, around which they grow. This kind of outgassing is not linked to volcanic activity and there is not hydrothermal influence. Cold outgassing is probably present on Mars, it has been observed on Ganymede, Europa, and other icy satellites (ice volcanism), and is theoretically considered to be present on Titan. This possible extensive occurrence of outgassing sites on the planetary surface suggests that chemosynthesis may be an important player in the biology of the Solar System.

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