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List of works by David Wacey

1 billion-year-old cell contents preserved in monazite and xenotime

scientific article published on 21 June 2019

A combined TEM and NanoSIMS study of endolithic microfossils in altered seafloor basalt

scholarly article

A fresh look at the fossil evidence for early Archaean cellular life

scientific article

A microbial role in the construction of Mono Lake carbonate chimneys?

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A new occurrence of ambient inclusion trails from the ~1900-million-year-old Gunflint Formation, Ontario: nanocharacterization and testing of potential formation mechanisms.

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Accumulation of transition metals and metalloids in sulfidized stromatolites of the 3.48 billion–year–old Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton

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Advanced analytical techniques for studying the morphology and chemistry of Proterozoic microfossils

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

Authigenic anatase within 1 billion-year-old cells

scientific article published on 30 September 2020

Biodiversity of Living, Non-marine, Thrombolites of Lake Clifton, Western Australia

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Biosignatures link microorganisms to iron mineralization in a paleoaquifer

scholarly article

Carbonaceous microstructures from sedimentary laminated chert within the 3.46 Ga Apex Basalt, Chinaman Creek locality, Pilbara, Western Australia

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Changing the picture of Earth's earliest fossils (3.5-1.9 Ga) with new approaches and new discoveries

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Chemical and Optical Identification of Micrometer-Sized 1.9 Billion-Year-Old Fossils by Combining a Miniature Laser Ablation Ionization Mass Spectrometry System with an Optical Microscope

scientific article published on 10 August 2018

Critically testing olivine-hosted putative martian biosignatures in the Yamato 000593 meteorite-Geobiological implications

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

Deconstructing Earth's oldest ichnofossil record from the Pilbara Craton, West Australia: Implications for seeking life in the Archean subseafloor

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Detecting ancient life: Investigating the nature and origin of possible stromatolites and associated calcite from a one billion year old lake

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Earliest evidence for life on Earth: an Australian perspective

scientific article published in March 2012

Earliest microbially mediated pyrite oxidation in ~3.4 billion-year-old sediments

scholarly article

Enhanced cellular preservation by clay minerals in 1 billion-year-old lakes

scientific article published on 28 July 2014

Formation of micro-spherulitic barite in association with organic matter within sulfidized stromatolites of the 3.48 billion-year-old Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton

scientific article published on 02 May 2020

Geochemistry and nano-structure of a putative ∼3240 million-year-old black smoker biota, Sulphur Springs Group, Western Australia

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Going nano: A new step toward understanding the processes governing freshwater ooid formation

scholarly article

In situ multiple sulfur isotope analysis by SIMS of pyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, and pentlandite to refine magmatic ore genetic models

scholarly article

Making silica rock coatings in the lab: synthetic desert varnish

Microbialite taphonomy and biogenicity: new insights from NanoSIMS.

scientific article published in December 2010

Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures Recording an Ancient Ecosystem in the ca. 3.48 Billion-Year-Old Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Western Australia

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Microfossils of sulphur-metabolizing cells in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks of Western Australia

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Mineralisation of filamentous cyanobacteria in Lake Thetis stromatolites, Western Australia

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

NanoSIMS analysis of Archean fossils and biomarkers

Nanoscale analysis of pyritized microfossils reveals differential heterotrophic consumption in the ~1.9-Ga Gunflint chert

scientific article (publication date: 14 May 2013)

Pumice as a remarkable substrate for the origin of life

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

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Stromatolites in the approximately 3400 Ma Strelley Pool Formation, Western Australia: examining biogenicity from the macro- to the nano-scale.

scientific article published on May 2010

Sulfur isotope evidence for a Paleoarchean subseafloor biosphere, Barberton, South Africa

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Taphonomy of very ancient microfossils from the ∼3400Ma Strelley Pool Formation and ∼1900Ma Gunflint Formation: New insights using a focused ion beam

The nano-scale anatomy of a complex carbon-lined microtube in volcanic glass from the ~92Ma Troodos Ophiolite, Cyprus

scholarly article

Tunnel Formation in Basalt Glass

scientific article published on 22 September 2018

Two coexisting sulfur metabolisms in a ca. 3400 Ma sandstone

scholarly article

Uncovering framboidal pyrite biogenicity using nano-scale CNorg mapping

scholarly article by David Wacey et al published January 2015 in Geology

Use of NanoSIMS in the search for early life on Earth: ambient inclusion trails in a c. 3400 Ma sandstone

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Viruses as new agents of organomineralization in the geological record.

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Volcanogenic Pseudo-Fossils from the ∼3.48 Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Western Australia

scientific article published on 20 February 2018

X-ray microtomography as a tool for investigating the petrological context of Precambrian cellular remains

scholarly article by Keyron Hickman-Lewis et al published 2 November 2016 in Geological Society Special Publication

Zircon U–Pb, Lu–Hf and O isotopes from the 3414 Ma Strelley Pool Formation, East Pilbara Terrane, and the Palaeoarchaean emergence of a cryptic cratonic core

scientific article published in February 2019