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The world's oldest fossils or oily gunk?

Research suggests these 3.5 billion-year-old

rocks don't contain signs of life Birger Rasmussen

and Janet Muhling, PhysOrg, The Conversation. February 2, 2023

 

The world’s oldest fossils or oily gunk? New research suggests

these 3.5 billion-year-old rocks don’t contain signs of life

Birger Rasmussen and Janet Muhling, The Conversation

 

A 3.5-billion year old Pilbara find is not the oldest fossil: so what is it?

David Wacey and Martin Saunders, The conversation, April 2015

 

The open access paper is

 

Birger Rasmussen et al, 2023, Organic carbon generation in

3.5-billion-year-old basalt-hosted seafloor hydrothermal vent systems,

Science Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add7925

 

PDF file for above paper

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.