Geochemical constraints on the Hadean environment from mineral fingerprints of prokaryotes

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Novoselov, Alexey A., Silva, Dailto, Schneider, Jerusa, Abrevaya, Ximena Celeste, Chaffin, Michael S., Serrano, Paloma, Navarro, Margareth Sugano, Conti, Maria Josiane, Souza Filho, Carlos Roberto de
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer
• Subjects: ASTROBIOLOGY; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Navarro; Paloma; Ximena; Alfred Wegener Institute
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/23793

The environmental conditions on the Earth before 4 billion years ago are highly uncertain, largely because of the lack of a substantial rock record from this period. During this time interval, known as the Hadean, the young planet transformed from an uninhabited world to the one capable of supportin...