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13 C-Depleted Carbon Microparticles in >3700-Ma Sea-Floor Sedimentary Rocks from West Greenland
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Turbiditic and pelagic sedimentary rocks from the Isua supracrustal belt in west Greenland [more than 3700 million years ago (Ma)] contain reduced carbon that is likely biogenic. The carbon is present as 2- to 5-micrometer graphite globules and has an isotopic composition of δ 13 C that is about –19 per mil (Pee Dee belemnite standard). These data and the mode of occurrence indicate that the reduced carbon represents biogenic detritus, which was perhaps derived from planktonic organisms.
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- Authors
- Rosing, M. T.
- Affiliations
- Geologisk Museum, Øster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 København K, Denmark, and Danish Lithosphere Center, Øster Voldgade 10, DK-1350 København K, Denmark.
- Corresponding author
- Rosing, Minik T.
- ORCID
- Rosing, Minik T.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1999-01-29
- Volume
- 283
- Issue
- 5402
- Pages
- 674-676
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
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- W2085436563
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- 21.28
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- journal article
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- en
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- 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
- biogenic carbon, carbon microparticles, early Archean, Isua supracrustal belt, turbidites, pelagic sediments, planktonic organisms, carbon isotopes, West Greenland
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