Close-up picture of a core sample (IMAGE)

GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Helmholtz Centre

Close-up picture of a core sample

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Close-up picture of a core sample: The oldest samples are drill core samples from the 1.6-billion-year-old McArthur Basin in Northern Australia. This is among the oldest biomarker samples known to date and contains the information about primary production by photosynthetic organisms at that time.

 

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Photo: Benjamin Nettersheim, MARUM University of Bremen

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