Deep Life : : The Hunt for the Hidden Biology of Earth, Mars, and Beyond / / Tullis Onstott.
Deep Life takes readers to uncharted regions deep beneath Earth's crust in search of life in extreme environments and reveals how astonishing new discoveries by geomicrobiologists are helping the quest to find life in the solar system.Tullis Onstott, named one of the 100 most influential people...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (512 p.) :; 32 halftones. 19 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Triassic Park
- Chapter 2: The Treasure of Cerro Negro
- Chapter 3: Bikers, Bombs, and the Death- o- Meter
- Chapter 4: Microbes in Meteorites!
- Chapter 5: Life in Deepest, Darkest Africa
- Chapter 6: Hunting for Water and Carbon
- Chapter 7: The Subterranauts
- Chapter 8: A Lot of Breaks and One Lucky Strike
- Chapter 9: Life beneath the Ice
- Chapter 10: The Worm from Hell
- Epilogue
- Appendix A: Chronology of the Exploration of Subsurface Life
- Appendix B: Chronology of the Meeting of the U.S. DOE's SSP Meetings
- Notes
- References
- Index