Download or read book The Deep Hot Biosphere written by Thomas Gold and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could there exist, deep within the Earth's crust, asecond biosphere -- composed of very primitive,thermophilic (heat-loving) bacteria, and containing moreliving matter than the entire surface of the planet? Thisradical idea, which initially met with skepticism when itwas first proposed by the author in the early 1980s, isnow supported ......