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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)