primordial sea
Life's original broth
The primordial sea is the ancient ocean thought to have covered early Earth, where life first emerged.
Scientists theorize that chemical reactions in this warm, mineral-rich water produced the organic compounds that eventually became living organisms.
The term appears in discussions of evolution and the origins of life: Life crawled out of the primordial sea.
- origin of lifeHow living things began
- biogenesisLife originates from life
- hydrothermalHot water underground
- black smokersSeafloor structures emitting superheated water
- cosmic oceanUniverse conceived as waters
life begins · chemicals · panspermia · evolution · creation myth · amino acids · deep time · sacred springs · molecules · abiotic · stromatolites · aqueous · salt water · Nun · ocean · carbon compounds · ancient oceans · nucleotides
- originsbeginning, birth, creation, source, roots
- Japanese mythologyAmaterasu, kami, sun goddess, storm god, creation myth
- Ancient EarthPangaea, Gondwana, Tethys Sea, supercontinent, continental drift
- Mesopotamian mythologyAnu, Marduk, Ishtar, Tiamat, Gilgamesh
primordial seaheat death
Universe's final entropic state
end state · end times · extinction · the void · oblivion
primordial seacoral reef
Calcium carbonate marine ecosystem
rainforest · Cambrian explosion · living world · sterile environment
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