Early Earth's Oceans and Atmosphere Colder than Thought (3 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Early Earth's Oceans and Atmosphere Colder than Thought (3 of 4)

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Typical landscape in study areas. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 26, 2016, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by M.J. de Wit at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, and colleagues was titled, "3.5-Ga hydrothermal fields and diamictites in the Barberton Greenstone Belt--Paleoarchean crust in cold environments."

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Maarten de Wit

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