• DOI:10.1038/nature21377
Corpus ID: 2420384

Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates

@article{Dodd2017EvidenceFE,
  title={Evidence for early life in Earth’s oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates},
  author={Matthew S Dodd and D. Papineau and T. Grenne and J. F. Slack and M. Rittner and F. Pirajno and J. O’Neil and C. S. Little},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2017},
  volume={543},
  pages={60-64}
}

Matthew S Dodd, D. Papineau, +5 authors C. S. Little

Published 2017

Biology, Medicine

Nature

Although it is not known when or where life on Earth began, some of the earliest habitable environments may have been submarine-hydrothermal vents. Here we describe putative fossilized microorganisms that are at least 3,770 million and possibly 4,280 million years old in ferruginous sedimentary rocks, interpreted as seafloor-hydrothermal vent-related precipitates, from the Nuvvuagittuq belt in Quebec, Canada. These structures occur as micrometre-scale haematite tubes and filaments with… CONTINUE READING

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