Are there any papers about earths radioactive sources being an energy source for biogenesis?

Joachim Pimiskern

Radioactivity can be an indirect source of energy

for lifeforms. Water is split into oxygen and hydrogen,

and the latter is the basis for further chemical

syntheses.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10336-gold-mine-holds-life-untouched-by-the-sun.html

http://www.mpg.de/530153/pressRelease20061205

http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/ast.2006.0066

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-05/aeco-erd051607.php

Regards,

Joachim

Michał Błażej Ponczek

I think a review that I have just found on PubMed can be intereresting:

Astrobiology. 2011 Jul-Aug;11(6):551-82. Epub 2011 Jul 20.

Ionizing radiation and life.

Dartnell LR.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21774684

P.S. I prefer "emergence of life" not "creation of life". The last IMHO suggests creationism or intelligent design

Michał Błażej Ponczek

Below some fragments of conclusions:

"(...) Ionizing radiation has traditionally been considered as mainly detrimental to biology, and ionization and radiolysis are indeed greatly destructive to the complex molecules and polymers of life and thus pose a severe hazard to the development and survival of organisms (...)

(...) The synthesis presented here, though, has demonstrated the many varied ways in which ionizing radiation is also beneficial and plays a vital role in providing habitable environments and supporting the development of life in the Cosmos.

These functions include the synthesis of biogenic elements and the driving of prebiotic chemistry to generate organic molecules in the ISM, circumstellar dust during formation of planetary systems, and the atmospheres, oceans, and subsurfaces of habitable planets and moons.

Indeed, in the case of Europa, the flux of trapped ionizing radiation onto the icy surface and radiolytic production of oxidants and organics may even nourish an oceanic ecosystem; a curious counterpoint to the biosphere-limiting effect of CR in the martian near subsurface. "

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