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Evidence from fluid inclusions for microbial methanogenesis in the early Archaean era

Ueno, Yuichiro, Yamada, Keita, Yoshida, Naohiro, Maruyama, Shigenori, Isozaki, Yukio·2006·Nature

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Methanogenic microbes may be one of the most primitive organisms, although it is uncertain when methanogens first appeared on Earth. During the Archaean era (before 2.5 Gyr ago), methanogens may have been important in regulating climate, because they could have provided sufficient amounts of the greenhouse gas methane to mitigate a severely frozen condition that could have resulted from lower solar luminosity during these times. Nevertheless, no direct geological evidence has hitherto been available in support of the existence of methanogens in the Archaean period, although circumstantial evidence is available in the form of approximately 2.8-Gyr-old carbon-isotope-depleted kerogen. Here we report crushing extraction and carbon isotope analysis of methane-bearing fluid inclusions in approximately 3.5-Gyr-old hydrothermal precipitates from Pilbara craton, Australia. Our results indicate that the extracted fluids contain microbial methane with carbon isotopic compositions of less than -56 per thousand included within original precipitates. This provides the oldest evidence of methanogen (> 3.46 Gyr ago), pre-dating previous geochemical evidence by about 700 million years.

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Authors: Ueno, Y., Yamada, K., Yoshida, N., Maruyama, S., & Isozaki, Y.
Affiliations: Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP)
The University of Tokyo (JP)
Corresponding author: Ueno, Yuichiro
ORCID: Ueno, Yuichiro
Yamada, Keita
Yoshida, Naohiro
Maruyama, Shigenori
Isozaki, Yukio
Venue: Nature
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2006-03
Volume: 440
Issue: 7083
Pages: 516-519
ISSN: 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/nature04584
OpenAlex: W2058299864
Cited by: 572
References: 28
Citations by year: 2026: 25 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 39 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 54 · 2020: 32 · 2019: 38 · 2018: 61 · 2017: 28 · 2016: 20 · 2015: 21 · 2014: 17 · 2013: 19 · 2012: 19
FWCI: 19.75
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Nature (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Tokyo Tech Research Repository (Tokyo Institute of Technology) (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 › Environmental Science › Environmental Chemistry › Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
Keywords: microbial methanogenesis, methanogenic archaea, fluid inclusions, biogenic methane, carbon isotopes, hydrothermal precipitates, Pilbara Craton, early life
MeSH terms: Australia, Environmental Microbiology, Methane, Silicon Dioxide, Geologic Sediments

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