Earth's Early Atmosphere and Oceans, and The Origin of Life - Shaw, George H.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
Introduction -- Accretional history of Earth -- Processes of degassing -- Atmospheric processing of degassed volatiles -- Early Archean "geography" -- Degassing processes -- Prebiotic chemistry - why we should pay attention to this -- Eigen's hypercycle and the emergence of life -- How the carbon-rich surface is key to emergence of life -- Evolution of Earth starting with a carbon-rich surface -- Implications of this model -- Conclusions.
Keywords: Geobiology; Planetology; Earth; Geology; Geoecology; Environmental geology; Biogeosciences; Planetology; Popular Earth Science; Geoecology/Natural Processes