This chapter describes the oldest known hot spring deposits (travertines) and discusses their similarities and differences with modern examples. It is emphasised that these ancient examples, preserved in outcrop and sampled during FAR - DEEP imply the presence of features at the Earth's surface c. 2Ga ago.
Attributed to:
The Archaean-Proterozoic Transition: Constraining the Emergence of the Aerobic Earth System
funded by
NERC
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Bibliographic Information
Type: Book Chapter
Book Title: Reading the Archive of Earth's Oxygenation: Global Events and the Fennoscandian Arctic Russia - Drilling Early Earth Project: Volume 3 (2012)
Page Reference: 1435 to 1456
ISBN: 978-3-642-29669-7