Martin J. Van Kranendonk

Questioning the evidence for Earth's oldest fossils

Martin D. Brasier, Owen R. Green, A. P. Jephcoat et al. · Nature · 2002 · 945 citations

Earth Science, Engineering, Biochronology +2

Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures

Allen P. Nutman, Vickie C. Bennett, C. R. L. Friend et al. · Nature · 2016 · 562 citations

Biology, Microbial Diversity, Unicellular Organism +12

Self-Assembled Silica-Carbonate Structures and Detection of Ancient Microfossils

Juan Manuel García‐Ruiz, Stephen T. Hyde, Anna M. Carnerup et al. · Science · 2003 · 498 citations

Materials Science, Western Australia, Engineering +13

Review: secular tectonic evolution of Archean continental crust: interplay between horizontal and vertical processes in the formation of the Pilbara Craton, Australia

Martin J. Van Kranendonk, R.H. Smithies, Arthur H. Hickman et al. · Terra Nova · 2007 · 440 citations · Full text

Magmatic Process, Volcanology, Engineering +21

Early Archaean Microorganisms Preferred Elemental Sulfur, Not Sulfate

Pascal Philippot, Mark van Zuilen, Kévin Lepot et al. · Science · 2007 · 347 citations

Engineering, Marine Chemistry, Archaea +20