Evidence for life on Earth before 3,800 million years ago

Geochemistry of hydrothermal ore deposits

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Engineering, Geology, Hydrothermal Ore Deposits +4

Why Nature Chose Phosphates

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Microfossils of the Early Archean Apex Chert: New Evidence of the Antiquity of Life

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A 3,800-million-year isotopic record of life from carbon in sedimentary rocks

Manfred Schidlowski · Nature · 1988 · 816 citations

Sedimentary Record, Carbon Sequestration, Engineering +8

Sedimentary facies of iron-formation

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Organic Geochemistry, Facies Analysis, Engineering +12