ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2019
Origin of Life's Building Blocks in Carbon- and Nitrogen-Rich Surface Hydrothermal Vents.
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Abstract
There are two dominant and contrasting classes of origin of life scenarios: those predicting that life emerged in submarine hydrothermal systems, where chemical disequilibrium can provide an energy source for nascent life; and those predicting that life emerged within subaerial environments, where UV catalysis of reactions may occur to form the building blocks of life. Here, we describe a prebiotically plausible environment that draws on the strengths of both scenarios: surface hydrothermal vents. We show how key feedstock molecules for prebiotic chemistry can be produced in abundance in shallow and surficial hydrothermal systems. We calculate the chemistry of volcanic gases feeding these vents over a range of pressures and basalt C/N/O contents. If ultra-reducing carbon-rich nitrogen-rich gases interact with subsurface water at a volcanic vent they result in 10 - 3 ⁻ 1 M concentrations of diacetylene (C₄H₂), acetylene (C₂H₂), cyanoacetylene (HC₃N), hydrogen cyanide (HCN), bisulfite (likely in the form of salts containing HSO₃
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