Sentences with phrase «find microfossils»
The international research team spent 10 years collecting and analyzing sediment samples in order to find microfossils.
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The lake might have existed billions of years ago; on Earth, which is teeming with life, it is rare to find microfossils from that far back, Grotzinger said.
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«In a nutshell, what we've found are the oldest microfossils on Earth,» says study coauthor Matthew Dodd, a biogeochemist at University College London.
Among the best places to find Martian microfossils would likely be at the sites of mineralizing springs, ancient evaporite deposits, and soil hardpans.
«In a nutshell, what we've found are the oldest microfossils on Earth,» says study coauthor Matthew Dodd, a...
In recent years, important finds of microfossils have been made within the Manx Slates and it was these that first gave an indication that the rocks are younger than previously thought.
Even when microfossils are found, there are often controversies about their biological origin, since parameters that lead to a good preservation of microfossils are not well constrained.
These new findings will help to better identify microfossils in the rock record, especially at a critical time on Earth when oxygen started to be an important component of the atmosphere.
Studying dental plaque from a 1.2 million year old hominin (early human species), recovered by the Atapuerca Research Team in 2007 in Sima del Elefante in northern Spain, archaeologists extracted microfossils to find the earliest direct evidence of food eaten by early humans.
The oldest known, microfossils of apparent sulfur - metabolizing bacteria were found in sandstone from an ancient beach that was dated back to around 3.43 billion years old, and some structures even appear to be dividing (more).
On August 21, 2011, a team of scientists published an article claiming to have found the earliest microfossils of possibly sulfur - metabolizing bacteria ever found.
The tiny microfossils were found on the shoreline of the Nastapoka Islands in Quebec, Canada, according to the findings published Wednesday in the journal Nature.