Earth & Planetary Sciences 438 - Forming a habitable planet
Reading material:
Lin, Douglas N. C., The genesis of planets., Scientific American, May,
2008. Pg 50-59. (pdf)
Jonathan I. Lunine, Bruce Macintosh, and Stanton Peale,
The detection and characterization of exoplanets, Physics Today, May 2009,
pp. 46-51 (pdf)
Project Cyclops: A design study of a system for detecting extraterrestrial intelligent life,
NASA, 1971 (pdf)
Initiation of clement surface conditions on the
earliest Earth N. H. Sleep and P. S. Neuhoff, PNAS, vol. 98, 3666-3672, 2001. (pdf)
Plate Tectonics through Time
Treatise on Geophysics, N. H. Sleep, vol. 9, 145-169, 2007. (pdf)
EVOLUTION OF THE CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE,
Norman H. Sleep, Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci. 2005, 33:369-93. (pdf)
Did Earthquakes Keep the Early Crust Habitable?
Norman H. Sleep and Mark D. Zoback, Astrobiology, vol. 7, 2007. (pdf)
H2-rich fluids from serpentinization:
Geochemical and biotic implications, PNAS, 2004.
(pdf)
Niches of the pre-photosynthetic biosphere and geologic
preservation of Earth's earliest ecology,
Norman H. Sleep and Dennis K. Bird, (pdf)
Evolutionary ecology during the rise of dioxygen
in the Earth's atmosphere, Norman H. Sleep and Dennis K. Bird
Philosophical Trans. B., 2008. (pdf)
An Energy Balance Concept for Habitability
Tori M. Hoehler, ASTROBIOLOGY, Volume 7, Number 6, 2007 DOI: 10.1089/ast.2006.0095
(pdf)
Possible presence of high-pressure ice in cold subducting slabs, Craig R. Bina & Alexandra
Navrotsky, Nature, 408, 844-845, 2000 (pdf)