Revealing the biotic origin of silicified Precambrian carbonaceous microstructures using Raman spectroscopic mapping, a potential method for the detection of microfossils on Mars

CHERTS OF THE BARBERTON GREENSTONE BELT, SOUTH AFRICA: PETROLOGY AND TRACE-ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY OF 3.5 TO 3.3 GA OLD SILICIFIED VOLCANICLASTIC SEDIMENTS

(2014) A. HOFMANN et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY

Raman Imaging of Metastable Opal in Carbonaceous Microfossils of the 700–800 Ma Old Draken Formation

(2013) Frédéric Foucher et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Habitability on Mars from a Microbial Point of View

(2013) Frances Westall et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Raman Hyperspectral Imaging of Microfossils: Potential Pitfalls

(2013) Craig P. Marshall et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Analysis of the scientific capabilities of the ExoMars Raman Laser Spectrometer instrument

(2013) Guillermo Lopez-Reyes et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MINERALOGY

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

Effect of grain size distribution on Raman analyses and the consequences forin situplanetary missions

(2013) F. Foucher et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

Martian Fluvial Conglomerates at Gale Crater

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

The Miniaturized Raman System and Detection of Traces of Life in Halite from the Atacama Desert: Some Considerations for the Search for Life Signatures on Mars

(2012) Petr Vítek et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

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

(2012) Alison Olcott Marshall et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Determination of crystallite size in polished graphitized carbon by Raman spectroscopy

(2012) O. A. Maslova et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Implications of in situ calcification for photosynthesis in a ~3.3Ga-old microbial biofilm from the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

(2011) Frances Westall et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

How to obtain a reliable structural characterization of polished graphitized carbons by Raman microspectroscopy

(2011) M. R. Ammar et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

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

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

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

(2010) Emmanuelle J. Javaux et al.   NATURE

Volcaniclastic habitats for early life on Earth and Mars: A case study from ∼3.5Ga-old rocks from the Pilbara, Australia

(2010) Frances Westall et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Geobiology of the late Paleoproterozoic Duck Creek Formation, Western Australia

(2010) Jonathan P. Wilson et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

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

(2010) A. Lahfid et al.   TERRA NOVA

Precursor and metamorphic condition effects on Raman spectra of poorly ordered carbonaceous matter in chondrites and coals

(2009) E. Quirico et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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