1. Preface

   • Nils G. Holm

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 3

2. Chapter 1 Why are hydrothermal systems proposed as plausible environments for the origin of life?

   • Nils G. Holm

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 14

3. Chapter 2 Hydrothermal systems: Their varieties, dynamics, and suitability for prebiotic chemistry

   • Nils G. Holm
   • Remy J. -C. Hennet

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 31

4. Chapter 3 Modern life at high temperatures

   • Roy M. Daniel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 42

5. Chapter 4 Aqueous organic geochemistry at high temperature/high pressure

   • Bernd R. T. Simoneit

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 65

6. Chapter 5 Chemical environments of submarine hydrothermal systems

   • Everett L. Shock

   OriginalPaper Pages: 67 - 107

7. Chapter 6 Chemical markers of prebiotic chemistry in hydrothermal systems

   • James P. Ferris

   OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 134

8. Chapter 7 Hydrothermal organic synthesis experiments

   • Everett L. Shock

   OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 146

9. Chapter 8 An experimental approach to chemical evolution in submarine hydrothermal systems

   • Hiroshi Yanagawa
   • Kensei Kobayashi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 159

10. Chapter 9 Mineral theories of the origin of life and an iron sulfide example

    • A. Graham Cairns-Smith
    • Alan J. Hall
    • Michael J. Russell

    OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 180

11. Chapter 10 Future research

    • Nils G. Holm
    • A. Graham Cairns-Smith
    • Hiroshi Yanagawa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 190

12. Literature cited (Chapters 1–10)

    Legacy Pages: 191 - 242