A BRIEF NOTE ON MINERAL EVOLUTION AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Year 2014, , 211 - 218, 01.12.2014

José María Amigó

https://doi.org/10.19111/bmre.11935

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 thenatural inorganic world. Certain questions about the genesis of the universe are related tothe evolution of our solar system and the evolution of life on our planet. In this paper, recentcontributions 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 thebiochemical 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 elementsproduced by the melting process. The geological history of mineral evolution on the Earthis an interesting tool to study terrestrial and/or extraterrestrial mineralogy in regard toastronomy, biology, chemistry and other experimental natural sciences

Keywords

geology, mineralogy, terrestrial and extraterrestrial mineral evolution, life existence, biochemistry

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