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List of works by Roger Buick

A reconstruction of Archean biological diversity based on molecular fossils from the 2.78 to 2.45 billion-year-old Mount Bruce Supergroup, Hamersley Basin, Western Australia

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A whiff of oxygen before the great oxidation event?

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Abiological origin of described stromatolites older than 3.2 Ga: Comment and Reply

scientific article published in February 1995

Abrupt and Gradual Extinction Among Late Permian Land Vertebrates in the Karoo Basin, South Africa

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Acritarchs and microfossils from the Mesoproterozoic Bangemall Group, northwestern Australia

scientific article (publication date: September 1999)

Air density 2.7 billion years ago limited to less than twice modern levels by fossil raindrop imprints

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An extended organic carbon-isotope record across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary in the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada

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Archean Molecular Fossils and the Early Rise of Eukaryotes

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Assessment of human pluripotent hemopoietic progenitors and leukemic blast-forming cells in culture.

scientific article published on January 1981

Atmospheric CO2 levels from 2.7 billion years ago inferred from micrometeorite oxidation

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Atmospheric science: Ancient air caught by shooting stars

scientific article published on 11 May 2016

Basinal hydrographic and redox controls on selenium enrichment and isotopic composition in Paleozoic black shales

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Bias in carbon concentration and δ13C measurements of organic matter due to cleaning treatments with organic solvents

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Biomarkers from Huronian oil-bearing fluid inclusions: An uncontaminated record of life before the Great Oxidation Event

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Carbonaceous filaments from North Pole, Western Australia: Are they fossil bacteria in Archaean stromatolites?

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Carbonaceous filaments from North Pole, Western Australia: Are they fossil bacteria in archaean stromatolites? A reply

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Comments and Replies on “Early Archean silicate spherules of probable impact origin, South Africa and Western Australia”: COMMENT

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Composition and syngeneity of molecular fossils from the 2.78 to 2.45 billion-year-old Mount Bruce Supergroup, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

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Contributions to late Archaean sulphur cycling by life on land

Did the Proterozoic ?Canfield Ocean? cause a laughing gas greenhouse?

article published in 2007

Differential metamorphic effects on nitrogen isotopes in kerogen extracts and bulk rocks

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Early life: Ancient acritarchs

scientific article published in February 2010

Earth's air pressure 2.7 billion years ago constrained to less than half of modern levels

article by Sanjoy M. Som et al published 9 May 2016 in Nature Geoscience

Environmental control on microbial diversification and methane production in the Mesoarchean

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Environmental niches and metabolic diversity in Neoarchean lakes

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Eolianite Grain Size Distributions as a Proxy for Large Changes in Planetary Atmospheric Density

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Evaluating the role of microbial sulfate reduction in the early Archean using quadruple isotope systematics

Evidence for reactive reduced phosphorus species in the early Archean ocean

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Exploring cycad foliage as an archive of the isotopic composition of atmospheric nitrogen

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

Geobiology of the Archean Eon

Geochronology and stratigraphic relationships of the Sulphur Springs Group and Strelley Granite: a temporally distinct igneous province in the Archaean Pilbara Craton, Australia

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Geochronology of a Late Archaean flood basalt province in the Pilbara Craton, Australia: constraints on basin evolution, volcanic and sedimentary accumulation, and continental drift rates

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Growth and recycling of early Archaean continental crust: geochemical evidence from the Coonterunah and Warrawoona Groups, Pilbara Craton, Australia

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Isotopic Evidence for an Aerobic Nitrogen Cycle in the Latest Archean

scientific article published in Science

Isotopic evidence for biological nitrogen fixation by molybdenum-nitrogenase from 3.2 Gyr

scientific article published on 16 February 2015

Isotopic evidence for microbial sulphate reduction in the early Archaean era.

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Late Archean biospheric oxygenation and atmospheric evolution

scientific article published in September 2007

Mercury abundance and isotopic composition indicate subaerial volcanism prior to the end-Archean "whiff" of oxygen

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Microfossil Recognition in Archean Rocks: An Appraisal of Spheroids and Filaments from a 3500 M.Y. Old Chert-Barite Unit at North Pole, Western Australia

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Modeling pN2 through Geological Time: Implications for Planetary Climates and Atmospheric Biosignatures

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Modeling the signature of sulfur mass-independent fractionation produced in the Archean atmosphere

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Nitrogen isotope evidence for alkaline lakes on late Archean continents

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Nitrogen isotope evidence for anoxic deep marine environments from the Mesoarchean Mosquito Creek Formation, Australia

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Oil preserved in fluid inclusions in Archaean sandstones

scientific article published in Nature

Oil-bearing CO2–CH4–H2O fluid inclusions: oil survival since the Palaeoproterozoic after high temperature entrapment

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Oil-bearing fluid inclusions from the Palaeoproterozoic: A review of biogeochemical results from time-capsules >2.0 Ga old

Oily old ores: Evidence for hydrothermal petroleum generation in an Archean volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit

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Origin and significance of aromatic hydrocarbons in giant iron ore deposits of the late Archean Hamersley Basin, Western Australia

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Oxygen and life in the Precambrian

Pervasive aerobic nitrogen cycling in the surface ocean across the Paleoproterozoic Era

scholarly article by Michael A. Kipp et al published October 2018 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Preservation of hydrocarbons and biomarkers in oil trapped inside fluid inclusions for >2 billion years

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Preservation of martian organic and environmental records: final report of the Mars biosignature working group

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Quantitative discrimination between geological materials with variable density contrast by high resolution X-ray computed tomography: An example using amygdule size-distribution in ancient lava flows

scholarly article by Sanjoy M. Som et al published April 2013 in Computers and Geosciences

Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks

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Record of emergent continental crust ∼3.5 billion years ago in the Pilbara craton of Australia

scientific article published in Nature

Records of geomagnetism, climate, and tectonics across a Paleoarchean erosion surface

scholarly article by Kyle Bradley et al published June 2015 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Redox state of the Archean atmosphere: Evidence from detrital heavy minerals in ca. 3250–2750 Ma sandstones from the Pilbara Craton, Australia: Comment and Reply

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Removal of oceanic REE by authigenic precipitation of phosphatic minerals

Revisiting the depositional environment of the Neoproterozoic Callanna Group, South Australia

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Selenium isotope analysis of organic-rich shales: advances in sample preparation and isobaric interference correction

Selenium isotope ratios, redox changes and biological productivity across the end-Permian mass extinction

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Selenium isotopes record extensive marine suboxia during the Great Oxidation Event

scientific article published on 17 January 2017

Selenium isotopes support free O2 in the latest Archean

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Spatial and temporal trends in Precambrian nitrogen cycling: A Mesoproterozoic offshore nitrate minimum

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Stable isotopic compositions of carbonates from the Mesoproterozoic Bangemall Group, northwestern Australia

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Stromatolite recognition in ancient rocks: an appraisal of irregularly laminated structures in an Early Archaean chert-barite unit from North Pole, Western Australia

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Stromatolites 3,400–3,500 Myr old from the North Pole area, Western Australia

scientific article published in Nature

Technical comment on "Reexamination of 2.5-Ga 'whiff' of oxygen interval points to anoxic ocean before GOE"

The antiquity of microbial sulfate reduction

article published in 2004

The antiquity of oxygenic photosynthesis: evidence from stromatolites in sulphate-deficient Archaean lakes

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The changing view of eukaryogenesis - fossils, cells, lineages and how they all come together

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The evolution of Earth's biogeochemical nitrogen cycle

scientific article published in September 2016

The evolution of the global selenium cycle: Secular trends in Se isotopes and abundances

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The first traces of life

Transient surface ocean oxygenation recorded in the ∼2.66-Ga Jeerinah Formation, Australia

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

When did oxygenic photosynthesis evolve?

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