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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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“Moreover, extractable acyclic isoprenoids and a homologous series of extractable n-alkanes (C 10-23+ ), both of which were prominent in previous Archean biomarker studies (1-3, 5, 7, 22, 23), were also below detection limits or cumulative laboratory blank concentrations in the AIDP samples.”
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“According to currently available H/C ratios and other indicators of thermal history, the metamorphic grades of AIDP-2 and AIDP-3 are similar to (1-4, 6, 7, 15, 21, 26) or lower than (5,22,23) the metamorphic grades of the rocks from which biomarkers have been previously reported.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Brocks, J. J., Buick, R., Summons, R. E., & Logan, G. A.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Geoscience Australia (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Brocks, Jochen J
- Venue
- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2003-11
- Volume
- 67
- Issue
- 22
- Pages
- 4321-4335
- ISSN
- 0016-7037 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2067099347
- Cited by
- 306
- References
- 143
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 8 · 2018: 11 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 11 · 2014: 12 · 2013: 15 · 2012: 13
- FWCI
- 18.08
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (publishedVersion)
- ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Origins and Evolution of Life
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Keywords
- molecular fossils, biomarkers, Hamersley Group, Fortescue Group, Pilbara Craton, hopanes, steranes, cyanobacteria, oxygenic photosynthesis, banded iron formations, methanotrophic bacteria, methylotrophic bacteria, eukaryotic origin, atmospheric oxygen, thermal maturity
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