A Field Guide to Finding Fossils on Mars

Remarkably preserved tephra from the 3430 Ma Strelley Pool Formation, Western Australia: Implications for the interpretation of Precambrian microfossils

(2018) David Wacey et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Reply to comment on the paper by Davies et al. “Resolving MISS conceptions and misconceptions: A geological approach to sedimentary surface textures generated by microbial and abiotic processes” (Earth Science Reviews, 154 (2016), 210–246)

(2018) Neil S. Davies et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Dating phototrophic microbial lineages with reticulate gene histories

(2018) C. Magnabosco et al.   Geobiology

Spatially-resolved isotopic study of carbon trapped in ∼3.43 Ga Strelley Pool Formation stromatolites

(2018) David T. Flannery et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

A mineralogical signature for Burgess Shale–type fossilization

(2018) Ross P. Anderson et al.   GEOLOGY

Experimental fossilization of mat-forming cyanobacteria in coarse-grained siliciclastic sediments

(2017) S. A. Newman et al.   Geobiology

Paleoecology and paleoceanography of the Athel silicilyte, Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary, Sultanate of Oman

(2017) D. A. Stolper et al.   Geobiology

Large-scale fluid-deposited mineralization in Margaritifer Terra, Mars

(2017) Rebecca J. Thomas et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Diagenetic silica enrichment and late-stage groundwater activity in Gale crater, Mars

(2017) J. Frydenvang et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Carbonaceous and siliceous Neoproterozoic vase-shaped microfossils (Urucum Formation, Brazil) and the question of early protistan biomineralization

(2017) Luana Morais et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates

(2017) Matthew S. Dodd et al.   NATURE

Low HesperianPCO2constrained from in situ mineralogical analysis at Gale Crater, Mars

(2017) Thomas F. Bristow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Redox stratification of an ancient lake in Gale crater, Mars

(2017) J. A. Hurowitz et al.   SCIENCE

Iron minerals within specific microfossil morphospecies of the 1.88 Ga Gunflint Formation

(2017) Kevin Lepot et al.   Nature Communications

Perchlorates on Mars enhance the bacteriocidal effects of UV light

(2017) Jennifer Wadsworth et al.   Scientific Reports

Fungus-like mycelial fossils in 2.4-billion-year-old vesicular basalt

(2017) Stefan Bengtson et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Evidence for Calcium Carbonate at the Mars Phoenix Landing Site

(2017) W. V. Boynton et al.   SCIENCE

Detection of Perchlorate and the Soluble Chemistry of Martian Soil at the Phoenix Lander Site

(2017) M. H. Hecht et al.   SCIENCE

Discovery of alunite in Cross crater, Terra Sirenum, Mars: Evidence for acidic, sulfurous waters

(2016) Bethany L. Ehlmann et al.   AMERICAN MINERALOGIST

The Climate of Early Mars

(2016) Robin D. Wordsworth   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Light and variable 37 Cl/ 35 Cl ratios in rocks from Gale Crater, Mars: Possible signature of perchlorate

(2016) K.A. Farley et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Examining Archean methanotrophy

(2016) Sarah P. Slotznick et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Resolving MISS conceptions and misconceptions: A geological approach to sedimentary surface textures generated by microbial and abiotic processes

(2016) Neil S. Davies et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The igneous oceanic crust – Earth's largest fungal habitat?

(2016) M. Ivarsson et al.   Fungal Ecology

Experimental evidence that clay inhibits bacterial decomposers: Implications for preservation of organic fossils

(2016) Sean McMahon et al.   GEOLOGY

Insights into cyanobacterial fossilization in Ediacaran siliciclastic environments

(2016) Sharon A. Newman et al.   GEOLOGY

Insights into surface runoff on early Mars from paleolake basin morphology and stratigraphy

(2016) Timothy A. Goudge et al.   GEOLOGY

Exceptional preservation of soft-bodied Ediacara Biota promoted by silica-rich oceans

(2016) Lidya G. Tarhan et al.   GEOLOGY

The changing view of eukaryogenesis – fossils, cells, lineages and how they all come together

(2016) Joel B. Dacks et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Decaying of Artemia salina in clay colloids: 14-month experimental formation of subfossils

(2016) Elena B. Naimark et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Micropaleontology of the lower Mesoproterozoic Roper Group, Australia, and implications for early eukaryotic evolution

(2016) Emmanuelle J. Javaux et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Physical and hydraulic properties of modern sinter deposits: El Tatio, Atacama

(2016) Carolina Munoz-Saez et al.   JOURNAL OF VOLCANOLOGY AND GEOTHERMAL RESEARCH

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

(2016) Allen P. Nutman et al.   NATURE

Decaying in different clays: implications for soft-tissue preservation

(2016) Elena Naimark et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Silicic volcanism on Mars evidenced by tridymite in high-SiO2sedimentary rock at Gale crater

(2016) Richard V. Morris et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Buried Alive: Microbes from Ancient Halite

(2016) Salla T. Jaakkola et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular preservation of 1.88 Ga Gunflint organic microfossils as a function of temperature and mineralogy

(2016) Julien Alleon et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2016) Steven W. Ruff et al.   Nature Communications

Unearthing the Antibacterial Mechanism of Medicinal Clay: A Geochemical Approach to Combating Antibiotic Resistance

(2016) Keith D. Morrison et al.   Scientific Reports

Ancient Sedimentary Structures in the

(2015) Nora Noffke   ASTROBIOLOGY

Biosignatures on Mars: What, Where, and How? Implications for the Search for Martian Life

(2015) Frances Westall et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Ultrastructural Heterogeneity of Carbonaceous Material in Ancient Cherts: Investigating Biosignature Origin and Preservation

(2015) Yuangao Qu et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Tracing Biosignature Preservation of Geothermally Silicified Microbial Textures into the Geological Record

(2015) Kathleen A. Campbell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Preserved Filamentous Microbial Biosignatures in the Brick Flat Gossan, Iron Mountain, California

(2015) Amy J. Williams et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Curiosity's Mission of Exploration at Gale Crater, Mars

(2015) J. P. Grotzinger et al.   Elements

Hematite-coated microfossils: primary ecological fingerprint or taphonomic oddity of the Paleoproterozoic?

(2015) R. S. Shapiro et al.   Geobiology

Carbon and sulfur isotopic signatures of ancient life and environment at the microbial scale: Neoarchean shales and carbonates

(2015) K. H. Williford et al.   Geobiology

Are the large filamentous microfossils preserved in Messinian gypsum colorless sulfide-oxidizing bacteria?

(2015) Francesco Dela Pierre et al.   GEOLOGY

Archean (3.33 Ga) microbe-sediment systems were diverse and flourished in a hydrothermal context

(2015) Frances Westall et al.   GEOLOGY

Salinity Influences the Response ofHalomonas hydrothermalisto Artificial Fossilization by Evaporative Silicification

(2015) Jesse P. Harrison et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

First detection of fluorine on Mars: Implications for Gale Crater's geochemistry

(2015) Olivier Forni et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The origins of perchlorate in the Martian soil

(2015) Brandi L. Carrier et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Common origins of RNA, protein and lipid precursors in a cyanosulfidic protometabolism

(2015) Bhavesh H. Patel et al.   Nature Chemistry

The role of experiments in investigating the taphonomy of exceptional preservation

(2015) Derek E. G. Briggs et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

FACTORS CONTROLLING EXCEPTIONAL PRESERVATION IN CONCRETIONS

(2015) V. E. MCCOY et al.   PALAIOS

Early metazoan life: divergence, environment and ecology

(2015) D. H. Erwin   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evidence for indigenous nitrogen in sedimentary and aeolian deposits from theCuriosityrover investigations at Gale crater, Mars

(2015) Jennifer C. Stern et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Carbon monoxide as a metabolic energy source for extremely halophilic microbes: Implications for microbial activity in Mars regolith

(2015) Gary M. King   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Potentially biogenic carbon preserved in a 4.1 billion-year-old zircon

(2015) Elizabeth A. Bell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deposition, exhumation, and paleoclimate of an ancient lake deposit, Gale crater, Mars

(2015) J. P. Grotzinger et al.   SCIENCE

Evidence for methane in Martian meteorites

(2015) Nigel J. F. Blamey et al.   Nature Communications

Reconstructing the transport history of pebbles on Mars

(2015) Tímea Szabó et al.   Nature Communications

Record of archaeal activity at the serpentinite-hosted Lost City Hydrothermal Field

(2015) S. Méhay et al.   Geobiology

Selective stabilization of aliphatic organic carbon by iron oxide

(2015) Dinesh Adhikari et al.   Scientific Reports

Mineralogy of the Martian Surface

(2014) Bethany L. Ehlmann et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Trajectories of Martian Habitability

(2014) Charles S. Cockell   ASTROBIOLOGY

Production and Early Preservation of Lipid Biomarkers in Iron Hot Springs

(2014) Mary N. Parenteau et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Feedbacks between flow, sediment motion and microbial growth on sand bars initiate and shape elongated stromatolite mounds

(2014) G. Mariotti et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Early diagenetic quartz formation at a deep iron oxidation front in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific – A modern analogue for banded iron/chert formations?

(2014) Patrick Meister et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Wind-blown sandstones cemented by sulfate and clay minerals in Gale Crater, Mars

(2014) R. E. Milliken et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Microbial shaping of sedimentary wrinkle structures

(2014) G. Mariotti et al.   Nature Geoscience

SEDIMENT EFFECTS ON THE PRESERVATION OF BURGESS SHALE-TYPE COMPRESSION FOSSILS

(2014) L. A. WILSON et al.   PALAIOS

Mars methane detection and variability at Gale crater

(2014) C. R. Webster et al.   SCIENCE

Ancient Aqueous Environments at Endeavour Crater, Mars

(2014) R. E. Arvidson et al.   SCIENCE

The imprint of atmospheric evolution in the D/H of Hesperian clay minerals on Mars

(2014) P. R. Mahaffy et al.   SCIENCE

Biomineralization mediated by anaerobic methane-consuming cell consortia

(2014) Ying Chen et al.   Scientific Reports

The Weng'an biota and the Ediacaran radiation of multicellular eukaryotes

(2014) Shuhai Xiao et al.   National Science Review

The Meaning of Stromatolites

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

The Icebreaker Life Mission to Mars: A Search for Biomolecular Evidence for Life

(2013) Christopher P. McKay et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Experimental Simulation of Evaporation-Driven Silica Sinter Formation and Microbial Silicification in Hot Spring Systems

(2013) François Orange et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Morphological Biosignatures in Gypsum: Diverse Formation Processes of Messinian (∼6.0 Ma) Gypsum Stromatolites

(2013) A.C. Allwood et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Plausible microbial metabolisms on Mars

(2013) S. L. Nixon et al.   ASTRONOMY & GEOPHYSICS

Experimental abiotic alteration of igneous and manufactured glasses

(2013) Martin R. Fisk et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Weighing the deep continental biosphere

(2013) Sean McMahon et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Sulfate availability and the geological record of cold-seep deposits

(2013) Thomas F. Bristow et al.   GEOLOGY

A hematite-bearing layer in Gale Crater, Mars: Mapping and implications for past aqueous conditions

(2013) A. A. Fraeman et al.   GEOLOGY

Experimental fossilization of the Thermophilic Gram-positive BacteriumGeobacillusSP7A: A Long Duration Preservation Study

(2013) François Orange et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Deep fracture fluids isolated in the crust since the Precambrian era

(2013) G. Holland et al.   NATURE

Groundwater activity on Mars and implications for a deep biosphere

(2013) Joseph R. Michalski et al.   Nature Geoscience

Evidence for biogenic graphite in early Archaean Isua metasedimentary rocks

(2013) Yoko Ohtomo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Archaeal and bacterial glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether lipids in chimneys of the Lost City Hydrothermal Field

(2013) Sara A. Lincoln et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars

(2013) J. P. Grotzinger et al.   SCIENCE

Mars' Surface Radiation Environment Measured with the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity Rover

(2013) D. M. Hassler et al.   SCIENCE

In Situ Radiometric and Exposure Age Dating of the Martian Surface

(2013) K. A. Farley et al.   SCIENCE

Martian Fluvial Conglomerates at Gale Crater

(2013) R. M. E. Williams et al.   SCIENCE

Mineralogy of a Mudstone at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars

(2013) D. T. Vaniman et al.   SCIENCE

Volatile and Organic Compositions of Sedimentary Rocks in Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars

(2013) D. W. Ming et al.   SCIENCE

Microbiological processes in banded iron formation deposition

(2013) Nicole R. Posth et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Biofilm Growth and Fossil Form

(2013) A. P. Petroff et al.   Physical Review X

Gypsum-Permineralized Microfossils and Their Relevance to the Search for Life on Mars

(2012) J. William Schopf et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Biosignatures link microorganisms to iron mineralization in a paleoaquifer

(2012) Karrie A. Weber et al.   GEOLOGY

Impact-generated hydrothermal systems on Earth and Mars

(2012) Gordon R. Osinski et al.   ICARUS

Fossils and astrobiology: new protocols for cell evolution in deep time

(2012) Martin D. Brasier et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Geologic relationships between gray hematite, sulfates, and clays in Capri Chasma

(2012) Catherine M. Weitz et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Most Mars minerals in a nutshell: Various alteration phases formed in a single environment in Noctis Labyrinthus

(2012) Patrick Thollot et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Primary silica precipitate at the Precambrian/Cambrian boundary in the South Oman Salt Basin, Sultanate of Oman

(2012) Karl Ramseyer et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

EXPERIMENTAL FORMATION OF A MICROBIAL DEATH MASK

(2012) S. A. F. DARROCH et al.   PALAIOS

INFLUENCE OF GAS PRODUCTION AND FILAMENT ORIENTATION ON STROMATOLITE MICROFABRIC

(2012) S. A. MATA et al.   PALAIOS

Limitations to a microbial iron cycle on Mars

(2012) Sophie L. Nixon et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Siliciclastic associated banded iron formation from the 3.2Ga Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa

(2012) Tomaso R.R. Bontognali et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Global distribution of microbial abundance and biomass in subseafloor sediment

(2012) J. Kallmeyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sulfur isotopes of organic matter preserved in 3.45-billion-year-old stromatolites reveal microbial metabolism

(2012) T. R. R. Bontognali et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Geochemistry of Carbonates on Mars: Implications for Climate History and Nature of Aqueous Environments

(2012) Paul B. Niles et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Geochemical Consequences of Widespread Clay Mineral Formation in Mars’ Ancient Crust

(2012) Bethany L. Ehlmann et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Preservation of Martian Organic and Environmental Records: Final Report of the Mars Biosignature Working Group

(2011) Roger E. Summons et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Potential Fossil Endoliths in Vesicular Pillow Basalt, Coral Patch Seamount, Eastern North Atlantic Ocean

(2011) Barbara Cavalazzi et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Terrestrial perspective on authigenic clay mineral production in ancient Martian lakes

(2011) Thomas F. Bristow et al.   CLAYS AND CLAY MINERALS

The preservation and degradation of filamentous bacteria and biomolecules within iron oxide deposits at Rio Tinto, Spain

(2011) L. J. PRESTON et al.   Geobiology

Sulfates and iron oxides in Ophir Chasma, Mars, based on OMEGA and CRISM observations

(2011) Lorenz Wendt et al.   ICARUS

Redefinition of the crater-density and absolute-age boundaries for the chronostratigraphic system of Mars

(2011) S.C. Werner et al.   ICARUS

Hydrated minerals in the deposits of Aureum Chaos

(2011) M. Sowe et al.   ICARUS

Ultra-diffuse hydrothermal venting supports Fe-oxidizing bacteria and massive umber deposition at 5000 m off Hawaii

(2011) Katrina J Edwards et al.   ISME Journal

Columbus crater and other possible groundwater-fed paleolakes of Terra Sirenum, Mars

(2011) J. J. Wray et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Pattern formation in stromatolites: insights from mathematical modelling

(2011) R. Cuerno et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Alteration assemblages in the nakhlites: Variation with depth on Mars

(2011) H. G. CHANGELA et al.   METEORITICS & PLANETARY SCIENCE

Subsurface water and clay mineral formation during the early history of Mars

(2011) Bethany L. Ehlmann et al.   NATURE

An early Ediacaran assemblage of macroscopic and morphologically differentiated eukaryotes

(2011) Xunlai Yuan et al.   NATURE

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

(2011) David Wacey et al.   Nature Geoscience

Hydrogen peroxide on Mars: Observations, interpretation and future plans

(2011) T. Encrenaz et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Carbonates in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001 formed at 18   4  C in a near-surface aqueous environment

(2011) I. Halevy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Iron-Oxidizing Bacteria: An Environmental and Genomic Perspective

(2010) David Emerson et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

The Rhynie Chert, Scotland, and the Search for Life on Mars

(2010) Louisa J. Preston et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Carbon isotope fractionation by circumneutral iron-oxidizing bacteria

(2010) C.B. Kennedy et al.   GEOLOGY

Distribution and formation of chlorides and phyllosilicates in Terra Sirenum, Mars

(2010) Timothy D. Glotch et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Paleoclimate of Mars as captured by the stratigraphic record in Gale Crater

(2010) R. E. Milliken et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Geologic setting of serpentine deposits on Mars

(2010) B. L. Ehlmann et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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

Extended survival of several organisms and amino acids under simulated martian surface conditions

(2010) A.P. Johnson et al.   ICARUS

Sequence and timing of conditions on early Mars

(2010) Caleb I. Fassett et al.   ICARUS

Lithotrophic iron-oxidizing bacteria produce organic stalks to control mineral growth: implications for biosignature formation

(2010) Clara S Chan et al.   ISME Journal

Stratigraphy of hydrated sulfates in the sedimentary deposits of Aram Chaos, Mars

(2010) Kimberly A. Lichtenberg et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Depth of the Martian cryosphere: Revised estimates and implications for the existence and detection of subpermafrost groundwater

(2010) Stephen M. Clifford et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Reanalysis of the Viking results suggests perchlorate and organics at midlatitudes on Mars

(2010) Rafael Navarro-González et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Microbial biofilms and the preservation of the Ediacara biota

(2010) MARC LAFLAMME et al.   LETHAIA

Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic deposits

(2010) Emmanuelle J. Javaux et al.   NATURE

Silica deposits in the Nili Patera caldera on the Syrtis Major volcanic complex on Mars

(2010) J. R. Skok et al.   Nature Geoscience

Deep crustal carbonate rocks exposed by meteor impact on Mars

(2010) Joseph R. Michalski et al.   Nature Geoscience

Ancient ocean on Mars supported by global distribution of deltas and valleys

(2010) Gaetano Di Achille et al.   Nature Geoscience

MICROBIAL BIOSIGNATURES IN IRON-MINERALIZED PHOTOTROPHIC MATS AT CHOCOLATE POTS HOT SPRINGS, YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, UNITED STATES

(2010) M. N. PARENTEAU et al.   PALAIOS

Sources and sinks of clay minerals on Mars

(2010) Ralph E. Milliken et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE

Biophysical basis for the geometry of conical stromatolites

(2010) A. P. Petroff et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identification of Carbonate-Rich Outcrops on Mars by the Spirit Rover

(2010) R. V. Morris et al.   SCIENCE

Juvenile chemical sediments and the long term persistence of water at the surface of Mars

(2009) Nicholas J. Tosca et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Iron-oxidizing microbial ecosystems thrived in late Paleoproterozoic redox-stratified oceans

(2009) Noah Planavsky et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Evaluating the role of microbial sulfate reduction in the early Archean using quadruple isotope systematics

(2009) Yanan Shen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Textured organic surfaces associated with the Ediacara biota in South Australia

(2009) James G. Gehling et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Remarkable preservation of microbial mats in Neoproterozoic siliciclastic settings: Implications for Ediacaran taphonomic models

(2009) Richard H.T. Callow et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Experimental silicification of the extremophilic ArchaeaPyrococcus abyssiandMethanocaldococcus jannaschii: applications in the search for evidence of life in early Earth and extraterrestrial rocks

(2009) F. ORANGE et al.   Geobiology

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

(2009) T. BOSAK et al.   Geobiology

Iron oxyhydroxide mineralization on microbial extracellular polysaccharides

(2009) Clara S. Chan et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Diagenetic haematite and sulfate assemblages in Valles Marineris

(2009) Leah H. Roach et al.   ICARUS

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observations of light-toned layered deposits and associated fluvial landforms on the plateaus adjacent to Valles Marineris

(2009) C.M. Weitz et al.   ICARUS

Sublacustrine depositional fans in southwest Melas Chasma

(2009) Joannah M. Metz et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Evidence for the origin of layered deposits in Candor Chasma, Mars, from mineral composition and hydrologic modeling

(2009) Scott Murchie et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Identification of hydrated silicate minerals on Mars using MRO-CRISM: Geologic context near Nili Fossae and implications for aqueous alteration

(2009) Bethany L. Ehlmann et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Ichnotaxonomy of microbial trace fossils in volcanic glass

(2009) N. McLoughlin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Microbial Communities in Subpermafrost Saline Fracture Water at the Lupin Au Mine, Nunavut, Canada

(2009) T. C. Onstott et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Microbial dissolution of clay minerals as a source of iron and silica in marine sediments

(2009) John S. Vorhies et al.   Nature Geoscience

Morphological record of oxygenic photosynthesis in conical stromatolites

(2009) T. Bosak et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Controls on development and diversity of Early Archean stromatolites

(2009) A. C. Allwood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Strong Release of Methane on Mars in Northern Summer 2003

(2009) M. J. Mumma et al.   SCIENCE

Morphogenesis of Self-Assembled Nanocrystalline Materials of Barium Carbonate and Silica

(2009) J. M. Garcia-Ruiz et al.   SCIENCE

Discovery of a New Chert-Permineralized Microbiota in the Proterozoic Buxa Formation of the Ranjit Window, Sikkim, Northeast India, and Its Astrobiological Implications

(2008) J. William Schopf et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Molecular evidence for life in the 3.5 billion year old Warrawoona chert

(2008) Sylvie Derenne et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

3.5 billion years of glass bioalteration: Volcanic rocks as a basis for microbial life?

(2008) Hubert Staudigel et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Processes of carbonate precipitation in modern microbial mats

(2008) Christophe Dupraz et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Putative cryptoendolithic life in Devonian pillow basalt, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Germany

(2008) J. PECKMANN et al.   Geobiology

Growth of synthetic stromatolites and wrinkle structures in the absence of microbes – implications for the early fossil record

(2008) N. MCLOUGHLIN et al.   Geobiology

HiRISE imaging of impact megabreccia and sub-meter aqueous strata in Holden Crater, Mars

(2008) John A. Grant et al.   GEOLOGY

Opaline silica in young deposits on Mars

(2008) R.E. Milliken et al.   GEOLOGY

Cambrian Burgess Shale–type deposits share a common mode of fossilization

(2008) Robert R. Gaines et al.   GEOLOGY

Light-toned strata and inverted channels adjacent to Juventae and Ganges chasmata, Mars

(2008) C. M. Weitz et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Mineralogy of Terra Meridiani and western Arabia Terra from OMEGA/MEx and implications for their formation

(2008) F. Poulet et al.   ICARUS

Spectral and geological study of the sulfate-rich region of West Candor Chasma, Mars

(2008) Nicolas Mangold et al.   ICARUS

Valley network-fed, open-basin lakes on Mars: Distribution and implications for Noachian surface and subsurface hydrology

(2008) Caleb I. Fassett et al.   ICARUS

Mineralogical composition, structure, morphology, and geological history of Aram Chaos crater fill on Mars derived from OMEGA Mars Express data

(2008) M. Massé et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Ferric oxides in East Candor Chasma, Valles Marineris (Mars) inferred from analysis of OMEGA/Mars Express data: Identification and geological interpretation

(2008) Laetitia Le Deit et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Gray hematite distribution and formation in Ophir and Candor chasmata

(2008) Catherine M. Weitz et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Geological context of water-altered minerals in Valles Marineris, Mars

(2008) Matthew Chojnacki et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Structure and stratigraphy of Home Plate from the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover

(2008) Kevin W. Lewis et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Clay minerals in delta deposits and organic preservation potential on Mars

(2008) Bethany L. Ehlmann et al.   Nature Geoscience

Bacteriohopanepolyol signatures of cyanobacterial and methanotrophic bacterial populations recorded in a geothermal vent sinter

(2008) Robert A. Gibson et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Microbial membrane lipids in active and inactive sinters from Champagne Pool, New Zealand: Elucidating past geothermal chemistry and microbiology

(2008) Gurpreet Kaur et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Water Activity and the Challenge for Life on Early Mars

(2008) N. J. Tosca et al.   SCIENCE

Chloride-Bearing Materials in the Southern Highlands of Mars

(2008) M. M. Osterloo et al.   SCIENCE

Detection of Silica-Rich Deposits on Mars

(2008) S. W. Squyres et al.   SCIENCE

Orbital Identification of Carbonate-Bearing Rocks on Mars

(2008) Bethany L. Ehlmann et al.   SCIENCE

Correlations between hematite and sulfates in the chaotic terrain east of Valles Marineris

(2007) E.Z. Noe Dobrea et al.   ICARUS

Fossilization potential of iron-bearing minerals in acidic environments of Rio Tinto, Spain: Implications for Mars exploration

(2007) David C. Fernández-Remolar et al.   ICARUS