Organic diagenesis in stromatolitic dolomite and chert from the late Palaeoproterozoic McLeary Formation

Bisnorgammacerane traces predatory pressure and the persistent rise of algal ecosystems after Snowball Earth

(2019) Lennart M. van Maldegem et al.   Nature Communications

Experimental evidence for abiotic formation of low-temperature proto-dolomite facilitated by clay minerals

(2019) Deng Liu et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Widespread occurrences of variably crystalline 13C-depleted graphitic carbon in banded iron formations

(2019) Matthew S. Dodd et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Fossil biomass preserved as graphitic carbon in a late Paleoproterozoic banded iron formation metamorphosed at more than 550°C

(2019) Dominic Papineau et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

New insights on the Orosirian carbon cycle, early Cyanobacteria, and the assembly of Laurentia from the Paleoproterozoic Belcher Group

(2019) Malcolm S.W. Hodgskiss et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Earliest life on Earth: Evidence from the Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

(2019) Martin Homann   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The catalytic role of planktonic aerobic heterotrophic bacteria in protodolomite formation: Results from Lake Jibuhulangtu Nuur, Inner Mongolia, China

(2019) Deng Liu et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Precipitation of protodolomite facilitated by sulfate-reducing bacteria: The role of capsule extracellular polymeric substances

(2019) Deng Liu et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Chemically oscillating reactions in the formation of botryoidal malachite

(2019) Dominic Papineau   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

Organic remains in late Palaeoproterozoic granular iron formations and implications for the origin of granules

(2018) Matthew S. Dodd et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Microbially influenced formation of Neoarchean ooids

(2018) David T. Flannery et al.   Geobiology

Reassessing evidence of life in 3,700-million-year-old rocks of Greenland

(2018) Abigail C. Allwood et al.   NATURE

Diagenetic mobilization of Ti and formation of brookite/anatase in early Cambrian black shales, South China

(2018) Ze-Rui Ray Liu et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Oncoidal granular iron formation in the Mesoarchaean Pongola Supergroup, southern Africa: Textural and geochemical evidence for biological activity during iron deposition

(2017) A. J. B. Smith et al.   Geobiology

Record of modern-style plate tectonics in the Palaeoproterozoic Trans-Hudson orogen

(2017) O. M. Weller et al.   Nature Geoscience

Earliest signs of life on land preserved in ca. 3.5 Ga hot spring deposits

(2017) Tara Djokic et al.   Nature Communications

Raman Imaging Spectroscopy of a Putative Microfossil from the ∼3.46 Ga Apex Chert: Insights from Quartz Grain Orientation

(2016) D.M. Bower et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Nano-Crystal Formation of Tio2Polymorphs Brookite and Anatase Due To Organic—Inorganic Rock–Fluid Interactions

(2016) Hans-Martin Schulz et al.   JOURNAL OF SEDIMENTARY RESEARCH

Rapid emergence of life shown by discovery of 3,700-million-year-old microbial structures

(2016) Allen P. Nutman et al.   NATURE

New observations of Ambient Inclusion Trails (AITs) and pyrite framboids in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, South China

(2016) Zhen-Bing She et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Sedimentology of the ∼3.3Ga upper Mendon Formation, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

(2016) Elizabeth J. Trower et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

A new stylolite classification scheme to estimate compaction and local permeability variations

(2016) D. Koehn et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

The growth and concentration of uranium and titanium minerals in hydrocarbons of the Carbon Leader Reef, Witwatersrand Supergroup, South Africa

(2015) S. Fuchs et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Nanoscale petrographic and geochemical insights on the origin of the Palaeoproterozoic stromatolitic phosphorites from Aravalli Supergroup, India

(2015) D. Papineau et al.   Geobiology

Grain trapping by filamentous cyanobacterial and algal mats: implications for stromatolite microfabrics through time

(2015) C. M. Frantz et al.   Geobiology

Precipitation of iron silicate nanoparticles in early Precambrian oceans marks Earth’s first iron age

(2015) Birger Rasmussen et al.   GEOLOGY

Sulfur-cycling fossil bacteria from the 1.8-Ga Duck Creek Formation provide promising evidence of evolution's null hypothesis

(2015) J. William Schopf et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An iodine record of Paleoproterozoic surface ocean oxygenation

(2014) Dalton S. Hardisty et al.   GEOLOGY

Primary silica granules—A new mode of Paleoarchean sedimentation

(2014) Elizabeth J.T. Stefurak et al.   GEOLOGY

The silicon and oxygen isotope compositions of Precambrian cherts: A record of oceanic paleo-temperatures?

(2014) J. Marin-Carbonne et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Terminal Proterozoic cyanobacterial blooms and phosphogenesis documented by the Doushantuo granular phosphorites II: Microbial diversity and C isotopes

(2014) Zhen-Bing She et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The Meaning of Stromatolites

(2013) Tanja Bosak et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures Recording an Ancient Ecosystem in the ca. 3.48 Billion-Year-Old Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Western Australia

(2013) Nora Noffke et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A new approach to develop the Raman carbonaceous material geothermometer for low-grade metamorphism using peak width

(2013) Yui Kouketsu et al.   ISLAND ARC

Surface chemistry allows for abiotic precipitation of dolomite at low temperature

(2013) Jennifer A. Roberts et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Oxygenation of shallow marine environments and chemical sedimentation in Palaeoproterozoic peritidal settings: Frere Formation, Western Australia

(2013) Sara J. Akin et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Going nano: A new step toward understanding the processes governing freshwater ooid formation

(2012) Muriel Pacton et al.   GEOLOGY

Dolomite formation in the shallow seas of the Alpine Triassic

(2012) Patrick Meister et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Self-accelerating dolomite-for-calcite replacement: Self-organized dynamics of burial dolomitization and associated mineralization

(2011) E. Merino et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

Global Biogeochemical Changes at Both Ends of the Proterozoic: Insights from Phosphorites

(2010) Dominic Papineau   ASTROBIOLOGY

Testing the survival of microfossils in artificial martian sedimentary meteorites during entry into Earth’s atmosphere: The STONE 6 experiment

(2010) Frédéric Foucher et al.   ICARUS

Shape analysis of filamentous Precambrian microfossils and modern cyanobacteria

(2010) David Boal et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Dolomite formation within microbial mats in the coastal sabkha of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)

(2010) TOMASO R. R. BONTOGNALI et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Evolution of the Raman spectrum of carbonaceous material in low-grade metasediments of the Glarus Alps (Switzerland)

(2010) A. Lahfid et al.   TERRA NOVA

Formation and stability of oxygen-rich bubbles that shape photosynthetic mats

(2009) T. BOSAK et al.   Geobiology