Comparative Planetology

✍ Scribed by Cyril Ponnamperuma (Eds.)

• Publisher: Academic Press Inc
• Year: 1978
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 275
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
CONTRIBUTORS, Page ii
Front Matter, Page iii
Copyright, Page iv
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, Pages vii-viii
PREFACE, Page ix
1 - THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF LIFE, Pages 1-6, A.I. Oparin
2 - THE VIKING BIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION: PRELIMINARY RESULTS, Pages 7-26, Harold P. Klein, Vance I. Oyama, Bonnie J. Berdahl, Glenn C. Carle, Richard D. Johnson, George L. Hobby, Norman H. Horowitz, Patricia A. Straat, Gilbert V. Levin, Joshua Lederberg, Alexander Rich, Jerry S. Hubbard, Frederick S. Brown
3 - THE CURRENT STATUS OF SPECULATIONS ON THE COMPOSITION OF THE CORE OF THE EARTH, Pages 27-50, Robin Brett
4 - COMPARATIVE PLANETOLOGY AND THE ORIGIN OF CONTINENTS, Pages 51-78, Paul D. Lowman Jr.
5 - ORIGIN OF THE EARTH'S OCEAN BASINS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE, Pages 79-101, Herbert Frey
6 - A STRATIGRAPHIC APPROACH TO THE EVOLUTION OF THE LUNAR CRUST, Pages 103-139, Farouk El-Baz
7 - ATMOSPHERIC EVOLUTION ON THE INNER PLANETS, Pages 141-163, James C.G. Walker
8 - THE EVOLUTION OF H₂O AND CO₂ ON EARTH AND MARS, Pages 165-182, Joel S. Levine
9 - THE ATMOSPHERE OF MARS: DETECTION OF KRYPTON AND XENON, Pages 183-189, T. Owen, K. Biemann, J.E. Biller, D.W. Howarth, A.L. LaFleur
10 - COMPOSITION OF THE ATMOSPHERE AT THE SURFACE OF MARS: DETECTION OF ARGON-36 AND PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS, Pages 191-196, Tobias Owen, K. Biemann
11 - SEARCH FOR ORGANIC AND VOLATILE INORGANIC COMPOUNDS IN TWO SURFACE SAMPLES FROM THE CHRYSE PLANITIA REGION OF MARS, Pages 197-211, K. Biemann, J.E. Biller, J. Oro, L.E. Orgel, A.O. Nier, D.M. Anderson, P.G. Simmonds, D. Flory, A.V. Diaz, D.R. Rushneck
12 - THE ATMOSPHERE OF MARS NEAR THE SURFACE: ISOTOPE RATIOS AND UPPER LIMITS ON NOBLE GASES, Pages 213-218, K. Biemann, A.L. LaFleur, T. Owen, D.R. Rushneck, D.W. Howarth
13 - WATER IN THE MARTIAN REGOLITH, Pages 219-224, Duwayne M. Anderson
14 - AN OUTLINE OF BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION BASED ON MACROMOLECULAR SEQUENCES, Pages 225-242, Robert M. Schwartz, Margaret O. Dayhoff
15 - MOLECULAR FOSSILS FROM THE PRECAMBRIAN NONESUCH SHALE, Pages 243-255, Thomas C. Hoering
16 - MICROORGANISMS PRESERVED IN CHERTY STROMATOLITIC DOLOMITE OF THE MWASHYA GROUP FROM N'GUBA, MULUNGWISHI, AND SHITURU LOCALITIES, SHABA, ZAIRE, CENTRAL AFRICA, Pages 257-268, Anna-Stina Edhorn
INDEX, Pages 269-275