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The ice age of primordial planets: The sources of the ocean and the origin of the biosphere

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In memory of G.A. Zavarzin Nature is simple and does not luxuriate in superfluous causes of things.

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Within V.I. Vernadsky’s concept of living substance as the general development of matter in the universe, the earliest traces of life in meteorites and on the Earth are considered. It is postulated that the genesis of microbial ecosystems on primordial Earth-type planets was a logical completion of their physical-geochemical development as volatile substances and water vapor degassed. The authors are of the opinion that the rise of life follows the development of planetary systems and is repeatable in space and time.

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Original Russian Text © A.S. Lopukhin, V.N. Eremeev, 2013, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2013, Vol. 83, No. 10, pp. 874–884.

Aleksandr Sergeevich Lopukhin, Cand. Sci. (Geol.-Mineral.), is a senior researcher at the Marine Hydrophysical Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Valerii Nikolaevich Eremeev, an academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, is director of the Institute of the Biology of Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

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Lopukhin, A.S., Eremeev, V.N. The ice age of primordial planets: The sources of the ocean and the origin of the biosphere. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 83, 411–421 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331613040060

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