The answer lies in some of the earliest extensive relics of Earth's surface, found in a remote corner of southern Africa's highveld—a region known to geologists as the Barberton Greenstone Belt.
Understanding how life as we know it came to exist, is something that scientists and researchers have long been examining by looking at the geological evidence we have left on Earth. A key place to ...
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Asteroid impacts: The unlikely cradle of early Earth lifeHarvard University scientists, led by geologist Nadja Drabon, analyzed rocks from the Barberton Greenstone Belt in South ...
where the oldest preserved emergent crust — still outcropping today in the Barberton Greenstone Belt, near Swaziland — was splashed with rain, traversed by rivers, and colonized by microbial ...
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