A BRIEF NOTE ON MINERAL EVOLUTION AND BIOCHEMISTRY
Journal: Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration of Turkey (Vol.149, No. 1)Publication Date: 2014-12-26
Authors : José María AMIGÓ;
Page : 211-218
Keywords : geology; mineralogy; terrestrial and extraterrestrial mineral evolution; life existence; biochemistry.;
Abstract
The natural inorganic materials (minerals and rocks) exceed the limits of the Earth. Therefore, the geology, which is the study of the Earth, represents only a small part of the natural inorganic world. Certain questions about the genesis of the universe are related to the evolution of our solar system and the evolution of life on our planet. In this paper, recent contributions from experimental physical natural-sciences to the formation of the universe (about 15 billion BP) coupled with the occurrence of minerals (4 million years BP) and the biochemical appearance of life (not more than 3 million years) on the Earth are discussed. When Earth was formed, none of the more than 4,400 minerals we know today were existed. Cosmologists estimate that nearly ten billion years after the Big Bang the first elements produced by the melting process. The geological history of mineral evolution on the Earth is an interesting tool to study terrestrial and/or extraterrestrial mineralogy in regard to astronomy, biology, chemistry and other experimental natural sciences.
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