Iron minerals within specific microfossil morphospecies of the 1.88 Ga Gunflint Formation.

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Published in Nat Commun on March 23, 2017

Authors

Kevin Lepot1,2, Ahmed Addad3, Andrew H Knoll4, Jian Wang5, David Troadec6, Armand Béché7, Emmanuelle J Javaux2

Author Affiliations

1: Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, Université de Lille, CNRS UMR8187, Cité Scientifique, SN5, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
2: Paléobiogéologie, Paléobotanique &Paléopalynologie, UR Geology, Département de Géologie, Université de Liège, 14 Allée du 6 Août B18, Quartier Agora, 4000 Liège, Belgium.
3: Unité Matériaux et Transformations, Université de Lille, CNRS UMR8207, Cité Scientifique C6, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
4: Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
5: Canadian Light Source Inc., University of Saskatchewan, 44 Innovation Boulevard, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada S7N 2V3.
6: Institut d'Electronique, de Micro-électronique et de Nanotechnologie, CNRS UMR8520, Avenue Poincaré, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
7: Electron Microscopy for Material Science, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium.

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