[Springer] Golding & Glikson, 2011. Earliest Life on Earth, Habitats, Environments and Methods of Detection (9789048187935).pdf

Earliest Life on Earth: Habitats, Environments and Methods of DetectionSuzanne D. Golding?Miryam GliksonEditorsEarliest Life on Earth: Habitats, Environments and Methods of DetectionEditorsSuzanne D. GoldingSchool of Earth SciencesUniversity of QueenslandBrisbaneAustralias.******@ GliksonSchool of Earth SciencesUniversity of ******@ISBN 978-90-481-8793-5 e-ISBN 978-90-481-8794-2DOI -90-481-8794-2Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New YorkLibrary of Congress Control Number: 2010934231? Springer Science+Business Media . 201No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on puter system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the illustration: Top picture: Thermally degraded pressed primary microbial cell constituting the predominant insitu, parallel to anic matter (OM) in billion year old rock formation in Western Australia. Observed and recorded by Miryam Glikson using 1 (from left to right): Primary microbial cells, not thermally degraded, preserved in fluid inclu-sions within quartz crystals in billion year old rock formation in Western Aiustralia. Observations using Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) by Miryam . OM coating quartz grains (represented by voids), part of major insitu OM in billion year old rock formation in Western Australia. TEM observations and recording by Miryam . Laboratory produced OM in simulated hydrothermal conditions, seen here to coat quartz grains (black). Note the close resemblance to similar OM occurrence in the old rocks. Experimental work, observations and recording of synthesized OM using TEM by Bradley