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

Allen P. Nutman (), Vickie C. Bennett, Clark R. L. Friend, Martin J. Van Kranendonk and Allan R. Chivas
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Allen P. Nutman: GeoQuEST Research Centre, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong
Vickie C. Bennett: Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University
Clark R. L. Friend: Glendale, Tiddington
Martin J. Van Kranendonk: Australian Centre for Astrobiology, University of New South Wales
Allan R. Chivas: GeoQuEST Research Centre, School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong

Nature, 2016, vol. 537, issue 7621, 535-538

Abstract: Stromatolite fossils formed around 3,700 million years ago in what is now Greenland predate the previous oldest fossil evidence for life on Earth by more than 200 million years.

Date: 2016
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