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    7.8 Traces of Life

    When and how life on Earth started is still an open question. Biochemical fingerprints stored in the ancient rock record indicate the presence of traces of life back to some of the oldest sedimentary rocks on ...

    Aivo Lepland, Nicola McLoughlin… in Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation (2013)

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    Taphonomy in Temporally Unique Settings: An Environmental Traverse in Search of the Earliest Life on Earth

    There is an apparent preservational paradox in the early rock record. Cellularly preserved and ensheathed microfossils which are remarkably preserved from the late Archaean (c.2700 Ma) onward, have rarely been fo...

    Martin D. Brasier, David Wacey, Nicola McLoughlin in Taphonomy (2011)

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    Oceanic Pillow Lavas and Hyaloclastites as Habitats for Microbial Life Through Time – A Review

    This chapter summarizes research undertaken over the past 15 years upon the microbial alteration of originally glassy basaltic rocks from submarine environments. We report textural, chemical and isotopic resul...

    Harald Furnes, Nicola McLoughlin… in Links Between Geological Processes, Microb… (2008)

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    Micro-bioerosion in volcanic glass: extending the ichnofossil record to Archaean basaltic crust

    Microbial bioerosion of volcanic glass produces conspicuous ichnofossils in oceanic crusts that are a valuable tracer of sub-surface microorganisms. Two morphologically distinct granular and tubular ichnofossi...

    Nicola McLoughlin, Harald Furnes, Neil R. Banerjee… in Current Developments in Bioerosion (2008)

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    Deciphering Fossil Evidence for the Origin of Life and the Origin of Animals

    The origins of major biological groups contain a series of questions that engage all the natural sciences. Too often the different ‘origin’ case studies, such as the origins of animals and of life, are treated...

    Jonathan Antcliffe, Nicola McLoughlin in From Fossils to Astrobiology (2008)

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    Looking Through Windows onto the Earliest History of Life on Earth and Mars

    We know that planet Earth is about 4.5 billion years old but what is less clear is when it first became home to life. Locating the first evidence for life on Earth is a question of considerable complexity and ...

    David Wacey, Nicola Mcloughlin, Martin D. Brasier in From Fossils to Astrobiology (2008)

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    The Evolution of Life on Earth and in the Universe

    David Deamer, John Evans, Baruch S. Blumberg, A. M. Carnerup… in Life as We Know It (2006)