The deep history of Earth's biomass
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Summary
It is argued that the deep biosphere outweighed the surface biosphere by about one order of magnitude for at least half of the history of life on Earth.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2018-06-12
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 92
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W2808611972
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Keywords
Geology, Earth (classical element), Earth science, Astrobiology, Paleontology
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- Introducing palaeolithobiology
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