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Biogenicity of Earth’s Earliest Fossils
The abundant and diverse assemblage of filamentous microbial fossils and associated organic matter permineralized in the ~ 3465 Ma Apex chert of northwestern Australia—widely regarded as among the oldest recor...
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Three-Dimensional Morphological (CLSM) and Chemical (Raman) Imagery of Cellularly Mineralized Fossils
Of all modes of fossilization, cellular mineralization, whether by the non-biologic process of permineralization (“petrifaction”) or by microbially mediated mineral precipitation (“authigenic mineralization”...
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Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy and Raman (and Fluorescence) Spectroscopic Imagery of Permineralized Cambrian and Neoproterozoic Fossils
Among all problems confronting the study of permineralized (petrified) fossils—the most life-like remnants preserved in the fossil record—two stand out, the need for (1) accurate documentation of their three-...