On the true antiquity of Eoarchean chemofossils – assessing the claim for Earth's oldest biogenic graphite in the Saglek Block of Labrador

A recent claim to have found traces of Earth's earliest life (>3.95 Ga) utilising isotopically light carbon in graphite-bearing metapelites from the Saglek Block of northern Labrador, Canada, is re-evaluated applying rigorous geological and geochronological criteria. The establishment of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Whitehouse, M., Dunkley, Daniel, Kusiak, M., Wilde, Simon
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier BV 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74140