Early Life Recorded in Archean Pillow Lavas

Science

Volumn 304, Issue 5670, 2004, Pages 578-581

  Furnes, Harald ^a   Banerjee, Neil R ^a,b   Muehlenbachs, Karlis ^b   Staudigel, Hubert ^c   De Wit, Maarten ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETCHING; MARINE BIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS; MOLTEN MATERIALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

MICROBIAL ETCHING; SUBMARINE MICROBIAL ACTIVITY;

VOLCANOES;

CARBONIC ACID; GLASS; ORGANIC CARBON;

ARCHEAN; EARLY EARTH; GREENSTONE BELT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PILLOW LAVA;

ARTICLE; CORROSION; GEOCHEMISTRY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MINERALIZATION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AFRICA;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CARBONATES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GLASS; LIFE; PALEONTOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

AFRICA; BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT; KAAPVAAL CRATON; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 2142825022     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1095858     Document Type: Article

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