Earliest evidence for life on Earth: an Australian perspective

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

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

Biogenicity of Morphologically Diverse Carbonaceous Microstructures from the ca. 3400 Ma Strelley Pool Formation, in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

(2010) Kenichiro Sugitani et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Diversity in the Archean Biosphere: New Insights from NanoSIMS

(2010) Dorothy Z. Oehler et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Stromatolites in the ∼3400 Ma Strelley Pool Formation, Western Australia: Examining Biogenicity from the Macro- to the Nano-Scale

(2010) David Wacey   ASTROBIOLOGY

Earliest microbially mediated pyrite oxidation in ~3.4 billion-year-old sediments

(2010) David Wacey et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Two coexisting sulfur metabolisms in a ca. 3400 Ma sandstone

(2010) David Wacey et al.   GEOLOGY

Three-Dimensional Morphological and Textural Complexity of Archean Putative Microfossils from the Northeastern Pilbara Craton: Indications of Biogenicity of Large (>15 μm) Spheroidal and Spindle-Like Structures

(2009) Kenichiro Sugitani et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

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

Biogenic origin for Earth's oldest putative microfossils

(2009) Bradley T. De Gregorio et al.   GEOLOGY

Confocal laser scanning microscopy and Raman imagery of ancient microscopic fossils

(2009) J. William Schopf et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Palynology of Archean microfossils (c. 3.0Ga) from the Mount Grant area, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: Further evidence of biogenicity

(2009) Kathleen Grey et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

NanoSIMS: Insights to biogenicity and syngeneity of Archaean carbonaceous structures

(2009) Dorothy Z. Oehler et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Taxonomy and biogenicity of Archaean spheroidal microfossils (ca. 3.0Ga) from the Mount Goldsworthy–Mount Grant area in the northeastern Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

(2009) Kenichiro Sugitani et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

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

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

(2008) N. MCLOUGHLIN et al.   Geobiology

Quadruple sulfur isotope analysis of ca. 3.5Ga Dresser Formation: New evidence for microbial sulfate reduction in the early Archean

(2008) Yuichiro Ueno et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Use of NanoSIMS in the search for early life on Earth: ambient inclusion trails in a c. 3400 Ma sandstone

(2008) DAVID WACEY et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Microbial remains in some earliest Earth rocks: Comparison with a potential modern analogue

(2008) Miryam Glikson et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Geological setting of Earth's oldest fossils in the ca. 3.5Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

(2008) M VANKRANENDONK et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH