Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates
Dodd, M.S.; Papineau, D.; Grenne, T.; Slack, J.F.; Rittner, M.; Pirajno, F.; O’Neil, J.; Little, C.T.S. (2017). Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates. Nature (Lond.) 543(7643): 60-64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature21377
In: Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 0028-0836; e-ISSN 1476-4687, more
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| Authors | | Top |
- Dodd, M.S.
- Papineau, D.
- Grenne, T.
- Slack, J.F.
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- Rittner, M.
- Pirajno, F.
- O’Neil, J.
- Little, C.T.S.
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| Abstract |
Perhaps the earliest known signs of life have been found in Quebec, where features such as haematite tubes suggest that filamentous microbes lived around hydrothermal vents at least 3,770 million years ago. |
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