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SUBMITTER: Staudigel H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4460447 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Staudigel Hubert H Furnes Harald H DeWit Maarten M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150518 22
Microbial corrosion textures in volcanic glass from Cenozoic seafloor basalts and the corresponding titanite replacement microtextures in metamorphosed Paleoarchean pillow lavas have been interpreted as evidence for a deep biosphere dating back in time through the earliest periods of preserved life on earth. This interpretation has been recently challenged for Paleoarchean titanite replacement textures based on textural and geochronological data from pillow lavas in the Hooggenoeg Complex of the ...[more]