Morphological biosignatures in early terrestrial and extraterrestrial materials

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 135, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 95-114

  Westall, Frances ^a  

^a CENTRE DE BIOPHYSIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Biosignatures; Early Archaean; Fossil microbial colonies; Fossil microbial mats; Mars; Stromatolites

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PIGMENTS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ANALYTICAL METHODS; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; ARCHAEAN; ARCHAEAN ROCKS; BIO FILMS; BIOSIGNATURES; BUSINESS MEDIA; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATERIALS; FIELD STUDIES; IN-SITU; IN-SITU METHODS; LARGE RANGE; LIFE ON MARS; MARTIAN ROCKS; MICROBIAL COLONIES; MICROBIAL CORROSION (MIC); MICROBIAL MATS; MICROSCOPIC STRUCTURES; ORGANIC MOLECULES; PILBARA; ROBOTIC MISSIONS; SPRINGER (CO); TERRESTRIAL ROCKS;

ROCKS;

EID: 46749118955     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-008-9354-z     Document Type: Article

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