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List of works by Sean McMahon

A Field Guide to Finding Fossils on Mars

scientific article published on 24 May 2018

A New Frontier for Palaeobiology: Earth's Vast Deep Biosphere

scientific article published on 26 June 2019

BIOFILMS MEDIATE THE PRESERVATION OF LEAF ADPRESSION FOSSILS BY CLAYS

scientific article published in 2017

Circumstellar habitable zones for deep terrestrial biospheres

DECAY OF THE SEA ANEMONE METRIDIUM (ACTINIARIA): IMPLICATIONS FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CNIDARIAN POLYPS AND OTHER SOFT-BODIED DIPLOBLAST-GRADE ANIMALS

scientific article published in 2017

Demonstrating deep biosphere activity in the geological record of lake sediments, on Earth and Mars

article

Detection of reduced carbon in a basalt analogue for martian nakhlite: a signpost to habitat on Mars

Doushantuo-type microfossils from latest Ediacaran phosphorites of northern Mongolia

scholarly article

Evidence for Seismogenic Hydrogen Gas, a Potential Microbial Energy Source on Earth and Mars

scientific article published on September 2016

Evidence for methane in Martian meteorites.

scientific article published on 16 June 2015

Exogeoconservation: Protecting geological heritage on celestial bodies

article by Jack J. Matthews & Sean McMahon published August 2018 in Acta Astronautica

Experimental evidence that clay inhibits bacterial decomposers: Implications for preservation of organic fossils

article

Is There Such a Thing as a Biosignature?

scientific article published in November 2023

Limits on methane release and generation via hypervelocity impact of Martian analogue materials

Mars-Analog Calcium Sulfate Veins Record Evidence of Ancient Subsurface Life

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Martin Brasier (1947–2014): astrobiologist

Mineralogical determination in situ of a highly heterogeneous material using a miniaturized laser ablation mass spectrometer with high spatial resolution

Palaeobiology of latest Ediacaran phosphorites from the upper Khesen Formation, Khuvsgul Group, northern Mongolia

article published in 2018

Palaeobiology of the early Ediacaran Shuurgat Formation, Zavkhan Terrane, south-western Mongolia

Physical and chemical controls on habitats for life in the deep subsurface beneath continents and ice.

scientific article

Pumice as a remarkable substrate for the origin of life

scientific article

Pumice from the ∼3460Ma Apex Basalt, Western Australia: A natural laboratory for the early biosphere

article

Sample Collection and Return from Mars: Optimising Sample Collection Based on the Microbial Ecology of Terrestrial Volcanic Environments

scientific article

Sampling methane in basalt on Earth and Mars

Sampling methane in hydrothermal minerals on Earth and Mars

The habitability of vesicles in martian basalt

The origin and occurrence of subaqueous sedimentary cracks

scholarly article by Sean McMahon et al published 30 November 2016 in Geological Society Special Publication

The role of experiments in investigating the taphonomy of exceptional preservation

scientific article published in 2015

The ‘Tully monster’ is a vertebrate

scientific article (publication date: 16 March 2016)

Weighing the deep continental biosphere

scientific article published on 19 September 2013

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