Trace Element Concentrations Associated with Mid-Paleozoic Microfossils as Biosignatures to Aid in the Search for Life

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Reconstructing Palaeoarchaean microbial biomes flourishing in the presence of emergent landmasses using trace and rare earth element systematics

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Challenges in evidencing the earliest traces of life

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Formation and Preservation of Microbial Palisade Fabric in Silica Deposits from El Tatio, Chile

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Orbital Identification of Hydrated Silica in Jezero Crater, Mars

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The Hot Spring Hypothesis for an Origin of Life

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Trace Element Concentrations in Hydrothermal Silica Deposits as a Potential Biosignature

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Manganese Oxides Resembling Microbial Fabrics and Their Implications for Recognizing Inorganically Preserved Microfossils

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Volcanogenic Pseudo-Fossils from the ∼3.48 Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara, Western Australia

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

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Patterns of metal distribution in hypersaline microbialites during early diagenesis: Implications for the fossil record

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Silica deposits on Mars with features resembling hot spring biosignatures at El Tatio in Chile

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Assessing the mineralogy of the watershed and fan deposits of the Jezero crater paleolake system, Mars

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Millimeter-scale resolution of trace metal distributions in microbial mats from a hypersaline environment in Baja California, Mexico

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Impact-generated hydrothermal systems on Earth and Mars

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Compositional and lithological diversity among brecciated lunar meteorites of intermediate iron concentration

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Trace elements record depositional history of an Early Archean stromatolitic carbonate platform

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