A reconstruction of Archean biological diversity based on molecular fossils from the 2.78 to 2.45 billion-year-old Mount Bruce Supergroup, Hamersley Basin, Western Australia

Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Volumn 67, Issue 22, 2003, Pages 4321-4335

  Brocks, Jochen J ^a   Buick, Roger ^b   Summons, Roger E ^c   Logan, Graham A ^d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEAN; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMARKER; BITUMEN; CYANOBACTERIUM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; SHALE;

AUSTRALIA; HAMERSLEY BASIN; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0042626834     PISSN: 00167037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-7037(03)00209-6     Document Type: Article

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