Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks

Hopanes and steranes found in Archean rocks have been presented as key evidence supporting the early rise of oxygenic photosynthesis and eukaryotes, but the syngeneity of these hydrocarbon biomarkers is controversial. To resolve this debate, we performed a multilaboratory study of new cores from the...

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Main Authors: French, Katherine L., Hallmann, Christian, Hope, Janet M., Schoon, Petra L., Zumberge, J. Alex, Hoshino, Yosuke, Peters, Carl A., George, Simon C., Love, Gordon D., Brocks, Jochen J., Buick, Roger, Summons, Roger E
Other Authors: Joint Program in Chemical Oceanography
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100743
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7144-8537

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