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Early Life on Earth - A Practical Guide (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
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Early Life on Earth - A Practical Guide (Paperback, 2009 ed.)
Series: Topics in Geobiology, 31
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When did life first appear on Earth and what form did it take? The
answer to this intriguing and fundamentally important question lies
somewhere within the early Archean rock record. The young Earth
was, however, a very different place to that we know today and
numerous pitfalls await our interpretation of these most ancient
rocks. The first half of this practical guide equips the reader
with the background knowledge to successfully evaluate new
potentially biological finds from the Archean rock record.
Successive steps are covered, from locating promising samples in
the field, through standard petrography and evaluation of antiquity
and biogenicity criteria, to the latest state of the art
geochemical techniques. The second half of the guide uniquely
brings together all the materials that have been claimed to
comprise the earliest fossil record into an easily accessible,
fully illustrated format. This will be a handbook that every
Archean geologist, palaeobiologist and astrobiologist will wish to
have in their backpack or on their lab-bench.
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