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Ideas and perspectives: hydrothermally driven redistribution and sequestration of early Archaean biomass – the “hydrothermal pump hypothesis”
Jan-Peter Duda
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geobiology, Geoscience Centre, Georg-August-Universität
Göttingen, Goldschmidtstraße 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
“Origin of Life” Group, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and
Humanities, Theaterstraße 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Volker Thiel
Department of Geobiology, Geoscience Centre, Georg-August-Universität
Göttingen, Goldschmidtstraße 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Thorsten Bauersachs
Department of Organic Geochemistry, Institute of Geosciences,
Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Ludewig-Meyn-Straße 10, 24118 Kiel,
Germany
Helge Mißbach
Department of Geobiology, Geoscience Centre, Georg-August-Universität
Göttingen, Goldschmidtstraße 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Department Planets and Comets, Max Planck Institute for Solar System
Research, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Manuel Reinhardt
Department of Geobiology, Geoscience Centre, Georg-August-Universität
Göttingen, Goldschmidtstraße 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Department Planets and Comets, Max Planck Institute for Solar System
Research, Justus-von-Liebig-Weg 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Nadine Schäfer
Department of Geobiology, Geoscience Centre, Georg-August-Universität
Göttingen, Goldschmidtstraße 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
“Origin of Life” Group, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and
Humanities, Theaterstraße 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Martin J. Van Kranendonk
Australian Centre for Astrobiology, University of New South Wales,
Kensington, New South Wales 2052, Australia
School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of
New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales 2052, Australia
Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust
Fluid Systems, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences,
University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales 2052, Australia
Joachim Reitner
Department of Geobiology, Geoscience Centre, Georg-August-Universität
Göttingen, Goldschmidtstraße 3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
“Origin of Life” Group, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and
Humanities, Theaterstraße 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
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The origin of organic matter in the oldest rocks on Earth is commonly ambiguous (biotic vs. abiotic). This problem culminates in the case of hydrothermal chert veins that contain abundant organic matter. Here we demonstrate a microbial origin of kerogen embedded in a 3.5 Gyr old hydrothermal chert vein. We explain this finding with the large-scale redistribution of biomass by hydrothermal fluids, emphasizing the interplay between biological and abiological processes on the early Earth.
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