Vestiges of life in the oldest Greenland rocks? A review of early Archean geology in the Godthabsfjord region, and reappraisal of field evidence for > 3850 Ma life on Akilia

Precambrian Research

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 101-124

  Myers, John S ^a   Crowley, James L ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early Archean; Geochronology; Gneiss complex; Greenland; Oldest life

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ISOTOPE; LEAD; URANIUM;

ARCHEAN; HISTORY OF GEOLOGY; ORIGIN OF LIFE;

ARCHEOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GEOLOGY; GREENLAND; LIFE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; RESEARCH; REVIEW; ROCK; SEDIMENT; VOLCANO;

GODTHABSFJORD; GREENLAND;

EID: 0034307168     PISSN: 03019268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-9268(00)00089-9     Document Type: Article

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