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    Calcitization of aragonitic bryozoans in Cenozoic tropical carbonates from East Kalimantan, Indonesia

    Aragonite is commonly lost during the diagenesis of carbonate rocks, producing a significant bias in the fossil record. However, taphonomic loss of aragonitic biota can be nullified when skeletal aragonite is ...

    Emanuela Di Martino, Paul D. Taylor, Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev, J. William Schopf in Facies (2016)

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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...

    Prof. J. William Schopf in Evolution of Archean Crust and Early Life (2014)

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    Biogenicity of Apex Chert microstructures

    J. William Schopf, Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev in Nature Geoscience (2011)

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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”...

    J. William Schopf, Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev, Abhishek B. Tripathi in Taphonomy (2011)

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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-...

    J. William Schopf, Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev in Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life (2011)

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    Images of the Earth's earliest fossils?

    The criticism by Pasteris and Wopenka of our use of laser–Raman imagery to investigate the carbonaceous make-up of extremely ancient fossils1 focuses only on their Raman signature; however, our interpretation tha...

    J. William Schopf, Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev, David G. Agresti, Thomas J. Wdowiak in Nature (2002)

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    Laser–Raman imagery of Earth's earliest fossils

    Unlike the familiar Phanerozoic history of life, evolution during the earlier and much longer Precambrian segment of geological time centred on prokaryotic microbes1. Because such microorganisms are minute, are p...

    J. William Schopf, Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev, David G. Agresti, Thomas J. Wdowiak in Nature (2002)