19. High-Pressure Biochemistry and Biophysics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Reviews III
3. PREFACE III
4. TABLE OF CONTENTS V
5. 1. Why Deep Carbon? 1
6. 2. Carbon Mineralogy and Crystal Chemistry 7
7. 3. Structure, Bonding, and Mineralogy of Carbon at Extreme Conditions 47
8. 4. Carbon Mineral Evolution 79
9. 5. The Chemistry of Carbon in Aqueous Fluids at Crustal and Upper-Mantle Conditions: Experimental and Theoretical Constraints 109
10. 6. Primordial Origins of Earth's Carbon 149
11. 7. Ingassing, Storage, and Outgassing of Terrestrial Carbon through Geologic Time 183
12. 8. Carbon in the Core: Its Influence on the Properties of Core and Mantle 231
13. 9. Carbon in Silicate Melts 251
14. 10. Carbonate Melts and Carbonatites 289
15. 11. Deep Carbon Emissions from Volcanoes 323
16. 12. Diamonds and the Geology of Mantle Carbon 355
17. 13. Nanoprobes for Deep Carbon 423
18. 14. On the Origins of Deep Hydrocarbons 449
19. 15. Laboratory Simulations of Abiotic Hydrocarbon Formation in Earth's Deep Subsurface 467
20. 16. Hydrocarbon Behavior at Nanoscale Interfaces 495
21. 17. Nature and Extent of the Deep Biosphere 547
22. 18. Serpentinization, Carbon, and Deep Life 575
23. 19. High-Pressure Biochemistry and Biophysics 607
24. 20. The Deep Viriosphere: Assessing the Viral Impact on Microbial Community Dynamics in the Deep Subsurface 649
25. INDEX 677