Comparative Planetology

Contents

List of Contributors

Preface


1 The Nature and Origin of Life


2 The Viking Biological Investigation Preliminary Results


3 The Current Status of Speculations on the Composition of the Core of the Earth


4 Comparative Planetology and the Origin of Continents


5 Origin of the Earth's Ocean Basins: Implications for the Development of Extraterrestrial Life


6 A Stratigraphic Approach to the Evolution of the Lunar Crust


7 Atmospheric Evolution on the Inner Planets


8 The Evolution of HgO and CO2 on Earth and Mars


9 The Atmosphere of Mars: Detection of Krypton and Xenon


10 Composition of the Atmosphere at the Surface of Mars. Detection of Argon-36 and Preliminary Analysis


11 Search for Organic and Volatile Inorganic Compounds in Two Surface Samples from the Chryse Planitia Region of Mars


12 The Atmosphere of Mars near the Surface: Isotope Ratios and Upper Limits on Noble Gases


13 Water in the Martian Regolith


14 An Outline of Biological Evolution Based on Macromolecular Sequences


15 Molecular Fossils from the Precambrian Nonesuch Shale


16 Microorganisms Preserved in Cherty Stromatolitic Dolomite of the Mwashya Group from N'Guba, Mulungwishi, and Shituru Localities, Shaba, Zaire, Central Africa

Index