image: A painting of the hydrothermal field and pipes commissioned by Maarten de Wit. 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." view more
Credit: Painting by Jenny Strong, Photo by Thandi de Wit