Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates

Although it is not known when or where life on Earth began, some of the earliest habitable environments may have been submarine-hydrothermal vents. Here we describe putative fossilized microorganisms that are at least 3,770 million and possibly 4,280 million years old in ferruginous sedimentary rock...

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Published in:	Nature (London) 2017-03, Vol.543 (7643), p.60-64
Main Authors:	Dodd, Matthew S., Papineau, Dominic, Grenne, Tor, Slack, John F., Rittner, Martin, Pirajno, Franco, O’Neil, Jonathan, Little, Crispin T. S.
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Language:	English
Subjects:	631/158/2462 631/181/414 631/326/47/4113 704/445/3929 704/47/4113 Biomass Carbon Isotopes Carbonates - chemistry Ferric Compounds - chemistry Ferrosoferric Oxide - chemistry Fossils Geologic Sediments - chemistry Graphite Humanities and Social Sciences Hydrothermal vents Hydrothermal Vents - microbiology Life Metamorphism Microorganisms Minerals Morphology multidisciplinary Natural history Ocean bottom Ocean floor Origin of Life Quebec Science Sedimentary rocks Time Factors
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