Biomarkers as tracers for life on early Earth and Mars

Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere

Volumn 28, Issue 4-6, 1998, Pages 475-483

  Simoneit, Bernd R T ^a   Summons, R E ^b   Jahnke, L L ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BIOPOLYMER; HYDROCARBON; LIPID;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BACTERIUM; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

BACTERIA; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BIOPOLYMERS; EARTH (PLANET); ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; EXOBIOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HYDROCARBONS; LIPIDS; MARS;

EID: 0032185413     PISSN: 01696149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1006508012904     Document Type: Article

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