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Natural and Laboratory-Simulated Thermal Geochemical Processes pp 325–388Cite as

On the Dissipation of Thermal and Chemical Energies on the Early Earth

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To this day the Earth is kept active by gravitational, rotational, radioactive and solar energies. The convective mass transfer of heat driven or influenced by one or more of these forms of energy, from the very core of our planet through to the upper atmosphere, eventually conduces the interfacing of the chemical tensions appropriate to the nurturing of life. Without convection in the Earth’s mantle there would be no plate tectonics, no volcanoes, no hot springs, no mountains — in effect, no fresh surfaces and thus no chemical potential on Earth to drive the metabolic process. Without advection and convection in the seas and atmosphere there would be no rain to irrigate the land. And without those spiralling currents in the liquid iron core there would be no electromagnetic field to protect us from lethal cosmic radiation. In particular we may say that genetically regulated metabolism and convection are coupled on our planet and must have always been so, right back to life’s origin (Russell et al., 1988).

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