This volume is the fourth in the series of the Proceedings of the College Park Colloquia on Chemical Evolution. These Colloquia, and the resulting Proceedings, are presented in the interest of fostering the impact of the interdisciplinary nature of chemical evolu tion on contemporary scientific thought. vii EDITORS'INTRODUCTION The Fourth College Park Colloquium on Chemical Evolution was held on October 18 - 20, 1978 at the University of Maryland. The meeting, supported by the National Aero nautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation, centered on the variable environments, both past and present, in which living organisms have survived, grown, and evolved - the limits of life. Previous colloquia had emphasized the Giant Planets (1974) 1, Early Life during the Precambrian (1975)2 and Comparative Planetology (1976)3. The College Park Colloquia have been noted for the broad interdisciplinary nature of the training and interests of the participants. The fourth meeting was no ex ception with the participation of approximately 85 researchers, representing many academic fields. As with previous meetings, the interdisciplinary approach to the question of the limits of life encouraged the exchange of knowledge and information. A major scientific aspiration is to understand why living systems are restricted to certain environments.
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Source title: Limits of Life: Proceedings of the Fourth College Park Colloquium on Chemical Evolution, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, U.S.A. ... (Proceedings of the College Park Colloquia)

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Limits to Life at Low Temperatures and at Reduced Water Contents and Water Activities....Pages 1-23
Biological Limits of Temperature and Pressure....Pages 25-32
Endolithic Microbial Life in Hot and Cold Deserts....Pages 33-45
Purification and Properties of Malate Dehydrogenase from the Extreme Thermophile Bacillus Caldolyticus ....Pages 47-54
The Gas Vacuole: An Early Organelle of Prokaryote Motility?....Pages 55-60
Physical Chemistry and Evolution of Salt Tolerance in Halobacteria....Pages 61-67
Halophily and Halotolerance in Cyanophytes....Pages 69-83
Soil Stabilization by a Prokaryotic Desert Crust: Implications for Precambrian Land Biota....Pages 85-98
The Evolution of the Solar ‘Constant’....Pages 99-104
Ozone, Ultraviolet Flux and Temperature of the Paleoatmosphere....Pages 105-119
Atmospheric Constraints on the Evolution of Metabolism....Pages 121-132
Archean Photoautotrophy: Some Alternatives and Limits....Pages 133-147
Sulphur Isotope Ratios in Late and Early Precambrian Sediments and Their Implications Regarding Early Environments and Early Life....Pages 149-158
Antiquity and Evolutionary Status of Bacterial Sulfate Reduction: Sulfur Isotope Evidence....Pages 159-171
Structural Features of Manganese Precipitating Bacteria....Pages 173-182
The Radioracemization of Amino Acids by Ionizing Radiation: Geochemical and Cosmochemical Implications....Pages 183-194
Erratum to: Antiquity and Evolutionary Status of Bacterial Sulfate Reduction: Sulfur Isotope Evidence....Pages 201-201
Back Matter....Pages 195-199

Proceedings of the Fourth College Park Colloquium on Chemical Evolution, University of Maryland, October 18-20, 1978

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