Earliest life on Earth : habitats, environments and methods of detection /

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Imprint:	Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 311 p.)
Language:	English
Subject:	Paleontology. Fossils. Habitat (Ecology) Fossils. Habitat (Ecology) Paleontology.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8895197

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Other authors / contributors:	Golding, Suzanne D. Glikson, Miryam, 1945-
ISBN:	9789048187942 (electronic bk.) 904818794X (electronic bk.) 9789048187935
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	This volume integrates the latest findings on earliest life forms, identified and characterised in some of the oldest rocks on Earth. New material from prominent researchers in the field is presented and evaluated in the context of previous work. Emphasis is placed on the integration of analytical methods with observational techniques and experimental simulations. The opening section focuses on submarine hot springs that the majority of researchers postulates served as the cradle of life on Earth. In subsequent sections, evidence for life in strongly metamorphosed rocks such as those in Greenl.
Other form:	Print version: Earliest life on Earth. Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2010 9789048187935

Table of Contents:

Earliest Life on Earth:Habitats, Environmentsand Methods of Detection; Preface; Contents; Contributors; Dedication to John F. Lindsay; Introduction; Earliest Seafloor Hydrothermal Systems on Earth: Comparison with Modern Analogues; Archaean Hydrothermal Systems in the Barberton Greenstone Belt and Their Significance as a Habitat for Early Life; Birth of Biomolecules from the Warm Wet Sheets of Clays Near Spreading Centers; Towards a Null Hypothesis for Stromatolites; Trace Element Geochemistry as a Tool for Interpreting Microbialites.

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