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3.5 billion years of glass bioalteration: Volcanic rocks as a basis for microbial life?

article by Hubert Staudigel et al published August 2008 in Earth-Science Reviews

A Hierarchical System for Evaluating the Biogenicity of Metavolcanic- and Ultramafic-Hosted Microalteration Textures in the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

scientific article published on October 2015

A Tribute to Martin D. Brasier: Palaeobiologist and Astrobiologist (April 12, 1947-December 16, 2014).

scientific article

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 multiple sulfur isotope study through the volcanic section of the Troodos ophiolite

scholarly article

Biosignatures across Space and Time-Special Collection

scientific article published on 6 October 2015

Carbonaceous biosignatures of diverse chemotrophic microbial communities from chert nodules of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation

Carbonaceous biosignatures of the earliest putative macroscopic multicellular eukaryotes from 1630 Ma Tuanshanzi Formation, north China

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

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Comparing petrographic signatures of bioalteration in recent to Mesoarchean pillow lavas: Tracing subsurface life in oceanic igneous rocks

article by Harald Furnes et al published October 2007 in Precambrian Research

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

Defining biominerals and organominerals: Direct and indirect indicators of life

scientific article

Fossil eukaryotes: Fungal origins?

scientific article published on 24 April 2017

How desert varnish forms?

article published in 2005

Ichnotaxonomy of microbial trace fossils in volcanic glass

scholarly article

Introduction: Volcanism and Astrobiology: Life on Earth and Beyond ⬇️

scientific article published on September 6, 2011

Making silica rock coatings in the lab: synthetic desert varnish

Mechanisms of microtunneling in rock substrates: distinguishing endolithic biosignatures from abiotic microtunnels.

scientific article published on 17 May 2010

Microscale mapping of alteration conditions and potential biosignatures in basaltic-ultramafic rocks on early Earth and beyond

scientific article published on 03 March 2014

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

scientific article (publication date: 14 May 2013)

On the biogenicity of Fe-oxyhydroxide filaments in silicified low-temperature hydrothermal deposits: Implications for the identification of Fe-oxidizing bacteria in the rock record

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

P-T Constraints on the Metamorphic Evolution of the Paleoarchean Kromberg Type-Section, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

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Questioning the biogenicity of titanite mineral trace fossils in Archean pillow lavas

scientific article

Reassessing the biogenicity of Earth's oldest trace fossil with implications for biosignatures in the search for early life

scientific article (publication date: 10 June 2014)

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

The problem of deep carbon—An Archean paradox

article published in 2005

Tubular Compression Fossils from the Ediacaran Nama Group, Namibia

article by P. A. Cohen et al published January 2009 in Journal of Paleontology

Two coexisting sulfur metabolisms in a ca. 3400 Ma sandstone

scholarly article

Ultrastructural Heterogeneity of Carbonaceous Material in Ancient Cherts: Investigating Biosignature Origin and Preservation.

scientific article published in October 2015

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

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