Nuclear geyser model of the origin of life: Driving force to promote the synthesis of building blocks of life

We propose the nuclear geyser model to elucidate an optimal site to bear the first life. Our model overcomes the difficulties that previously proposed models have encountered. Nuclear geyser is a geyser driven by a natural nuclear reactor, which was likely common in the Hadean Earth, because of a mu...

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Main Authors: Toshikazu Ebisuzaki, Shigenori Maruyama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-03-01
Series:Geoscience Frontiers
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987116301360