Microbial life and biogeochemical cycling on land 3,220 million years ago

2018/07/19 by Martin Homann, Pierre Sansjofre, Mark Van Zuilen +10 · 146 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Biogeochemical cycle #Biogeochemistry #Biology #Biosphere #Earth science #Ecology #Fluvial #Geochemistry #Geology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Isotope Analysis in Ecology #Microbial mat #Oceanography #Organic matter #Paleontology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils

paper · open access · doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0190-9

published in Nature Geoscience 11(9), 665-671 (Springer Science and Business Media LLC)

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Citations

• Morphological adaptations of 3.22 Ga-old tufted microbial mats to Archean coastal habitats (Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa)
• Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures
• Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates
• Earliest signs of life on land preserved in ca. 3.5 Ga hot spring deposits

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• Bacteria [wikipedia]
• History of life [wikipedia]