Potentially biogenic carbon preserved in a 4.1 billion-year-old zircon

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2015-10-19

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science, Geology

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1517557112PMID 26483481PMCID PMC4664351
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