When fossilized, the layered microbial structures are known as stromatolites. Some date as far back as 3.5 billion years ago, providing some of the earliest convincing traces of any kind of life ...

called stromatolites. Together, those lumps of relic biology in Greenland and the iron filaments in Canada suggest that life was stubborn. It diversified and survived, even as a young Earth ...

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Models suggest that Earth’s oxygen levels could drop as low as those of Archean Earth, when microbial life was the only life to be found on our little blue and green planet. Those levels of ...

“The Archean region on the south and west of Hudson Bay undoubtedly contains great mineral treasures,” Bryce wrote more than a century ago, long before anyone could have envisioned the immense ...

During the Neoproterozoic era, large-scale phosphorus formation occurred as upwelling currents transported deep, phosphorus-rich seawater into shallow coastal areas of central Guizhou. Strong ...

Edited by Donald E. Canfield, Institute of Biology and Nordic Center for Earth Evolution, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M., Denmark, and approved October 8, 2019 (received for review May 21, ...

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“This situation would exist on any young planet just after an origin of life, but prior to the establishment of a planetary-scale biota, an example being Hadean or early Archean Earth,” the ...

ABSTRACT: The study area encompasses the Odienné and Touba sectors in northwestern Côte d’Ivoire. It is located in the Archean-Paleoproterozoic Transition Zone (APTZ), the major structure of which, ...