Changing the picture of Earth's earliest fossils (3.5–1.9 Ga) with new approaches and new discoveries

Structural characterization by Raman hyperspectral mapping of organic carbon in the 3.46 billion-year-old Apex chert, Western Australia

(2013) M.C. Sforna et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Multiple generations of carbonaceous material deposited in Apex chert by basin-scale pervasive hydrothermal fluid flow

(2013) Alison Olcott Marshall et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Nanoscale analysis of pyritized microfossils reveals differential heterotrophic consumption in the  1.9-Ga Gunflint chert

(2013) D. Wacey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Multiple Generations of Carbon in the Apex Chert and Implications for Preservation of Microfossils

(2012) Alison Olcott Marshall et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Biogenicity of Earth's earliest fossils: A resolution of the controversy

(2012) J. William Schopf et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Taphonomy of very ancient microfossils from the ∼3400Ma Strelley Pool Formation and ∼1900Ma Gunflint Formation: New insights using a focused ion beam

(2012) David Wacey et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Pumice from the ∼3460Ma Apex Basalt, Western Australia: A natural laboratory for the early biosphere

(2012) Martin D. Brasier et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Improvement of oil adsorption performance by a sponge-like natural vermiculite-carbon nanotube hybrid

(2011) Meng-Qiang Zhao et al.   APPLIED CLAY SCIENCE

Earth’s earliest non-marine eukaryotes

(2011) Paul K. Strother et al.   NATURE

Haematite pseudomicrofossils present in the 3.5-billion-year-old Apex Chert

(2011) Craig P. Marshall et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microfossils of sulphur-metabolizing cells in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks of Western Australia

(2011) David Wacey et al.   Nature Geoscience

Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation

(2010) Robert S. Sansom et al.   NATURE

Modification of vermiculite by polymerization and carbonization of glycerol to produce highly efficient materials for oil removal

(2009) Miguel de Araújo Medeiros et al.   APPLIED CLAY SCIENCE

Hydrothermal alteration and microfossil artefacts of the 3,465-million-year-old Apex chert

(2009) Daniele L. Pinti et al.   Nature Geoscience