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A volcanic environment for bedrock diagenesis at Meridiani Planum on MarsThomas M McCollom
Center for Astrobiology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
Nature 438:1129-31. 2005..Consequently, the model invokes an environment considerably less favourable for biological activity on Mars than previously proposed interpretations...
Abiotic synthesis of organic compounds in deep-sea hydrothermal environmentsThomas M McCollom
CU Center for Astrobiology and Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Campus Box 392, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0392, USA
Chem Rev 107:382-401. 2007
Geochemical constraints on sources of metabolic energy for chemolithoautotrophy in ultramafic-hosted deep-sea hydrothermal systemsThomas M McCollom
CU Center for Astrobiology and Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309 0392, USA
Astrobiology 7:933-50. 2007..The results indicate that ultramafic-hosted systems are capable of supplying about twice as much chemical energy as analogous deep-sea hydrothermal systems hosted in basaltic rocks...
Hydrogen and bioenergetics in the Yellowstone geothermal ecosystemJohn R Spear
Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:2555-60. 2005....
Geomicrobiology in oceanography: microbe-mineral interactions at and below the seafloorKatrina J Edwards
Geomicrobiology Group, Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Trends Microbiol 13:449-56. 2005..This review focuses on geomicrobiological studies and energy flow in dark, deep-ocean and subseafloor rock habitats...
Geochemistry: biosignatures and abiotic constraints on early lifeBarbara Sherwood Lollar
Department of Geology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B1, Canada
Nature 444:E18; discussion E18-9. 2006..which suggests that an alternative, abiotic origin for the methane is equally plausible. The conclusions of Ueno et al. about the timing of the onset of microbial methanogenesis might not therefore be justified...
