Filamentous microfossils in a 3,235-million-year-old volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit

Nature

Volumn 405, Issue 6787, 2000, Pages 676-679

  Rasmusssn, Birger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHALT; BARIUM SULFATE; CARBONIC ACID; COPPER; LEAD; LEAD SULFIDE; MINERAL; PYRITE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SULFIDE; ZINC; ZINC SULFIDE;

ARCHEAN; MASSIVE SULFIDE; MICROFOSSIL; VOLCANOGENIC DEPOSIT;

ARTICLE; FOSSIL; MICROORGANISM; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THERMAL SPRING; VOLCANO;

ARCHAEA; AUSTRALIA; BIOGENESIS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; SULFIDES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

AUSTRALIA;

ARCHAEA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; PILBARA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0034621829     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35015063     Document Type: Article

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