Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 530 g
Reihe: Cuatro Ciénegas Basin: An Endangered Hyperdiverse Oasis
Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 530 g
Reihe: Cuatro Ciénegas Basin: An Endangered Hyperdiverse Oasis
ISBN: 978-3-030-46086-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
This book focuses on particularly interesting sites such as Andean lake microbialites, a proxy of early life since they are characterized by very high UV light, while Alchichica and Bacalar lakes are characterized by high-salt and oligotrophic waters that nurture stromatolites. However, it is only the oasis of Cuatro Ciénegas Basin in México that stored past life in its marine sediments of the Sierra de San Marcos. This particular Sierra has a magmatic pouch that moves the deep aquifer to the surface in a cycle of sun drenched life and back to the depths of the magmatic life in an ancient cycle that now is broken by the overexploitation of the surface water as well as the deep aquifer in order to irrigate alfalfa in the desert. The anthropocene, the era of human folly, is killing this unique time machine and with it the memory of the planet.
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Preface.- Chapter 1. What is astrobiology?.- Chapter 2. Astrobiology and Planetary Sciences in Mexico.- Chapter 3. Was LUCA a Hyperthermophilic Prokaryote? The Impact-Bottleneck Hypothesis Revisited.- Chapter 4. Stromatolites, Biosignatures, and Astrobiological Implications.- Chapter 5. The global distribution of modern microbialites: not so uncommon after all.- Chapter 6. The importance of the rare biosphere for astrobiological studies and the diversification and resilience of life on Earth.- Chapter 7. Bacterial communities from deep-hydrothermal systems: the southern Gulf of California as an example of primeval environments.- Chapter 8. Andean Microbial Ecosystems: traces in hypersaline lakes about life origin.- Chapter 9. Stromatolites in crater-lake Alchichica and Bacalar lagoon.- Chapter 10. The origin and early evolution of life on Earth: A laboratory in the School of Science.- Chapter 11. Cuatro Ciénegas as an Archaean Astrobiology Park.- Index.