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Microfósiles de paredes orgánicas en depósitos siliciclásticos de aguas poco profundas de 3.2 mil millones de años de
Emmanuelle J Javaux1, Craig P Marshall, Andrey Bekker
1Department of Geology, University of Liège, 17 allée du 6 Août B18, Liège 4000, Belgium. ej.javaux@ulg.ac.be
Nature
|February 9, 2010
Resumen
Los investigadores descubrieron los microorganismos fosilizados más antiguos y más grandes, que datan de hace 3.200 millones de años. Estas antiguas formas de vida, encontradas en las rocas de Sudáfrica, proporcionan nueva evidencia de la vida temprana en la Tierra.
Área de la Ciencia:
- Geobiología Geobiología Geobiología.
- Paleontología Paleontología.
- La geoquímica es la geoquímica.
Sus antecedentes:
- La historia temprana de la vida en la Tierra, particularmente durante el eón Arcaico, se debate debido a los desafíos en distinguir los orígenes biogénicos de los abióticos.
- La evidencia geoquímica, sedimentológica y paleontológica apoya cada vez más la vida temprana, pero persisten ambigüedades para registros más antiguos que el Arqueo Tardío.
- Los procesos no biológicos pueden imitar las morfologías de los microfósiles y producir compuestos orgánicos abióticos, lo que complica la identificación de rastros de vida inequívocos.
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