Martin Brasier

Summary

Affiliation: University of Oxford
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Questioning the evidence for Earth's oldest fossils
    Martin D Brasier
    Earth Sciences Department, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK
    Nature 416:76-81. 2002
  2. ncbi Earth's oldest (approximately 3.5 Ga) fossils and the 'Early Eden hypothesis': questioning the evidence
    Martin Brasier
    Department of Earth Sciences, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PR, UK
    Orig Life Evol Biosph 34:257-69. 2004
  3. ncbi A fresh look at the fossil evidence for early Archaean cellular life
    Martin Brasier
    Oxford University, Department of Earth Sciences, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 361:887-902. 2006
  4. ncbi Pumice as a remarkable substrate for the origin of life
    Martin D Brasier
    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Astrobiology 11:725-35. 2011
  5. ncbi Introduction: How and when did microbes change the world?
    Thomas Cavalier-Smith
    University of Oxford, Department of Zoology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 361:845-50. 2006
  6. ncbi Paleobiology. Decoding the Ediacaran enigma
    Martin Brasier
    Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University, OX1 3PR, UK
    Science 305:1115-7. 2004
  7. ncbi Impact craters as biospheric microenvironments, Lawn Hill Structure, Northern Australia
    John Lindsay
    Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas 77598, USA
    Astrobiology 6:348-63. 2006

Detail Information

Publications7

  1. ncbi Questioning the evidence for Earth's oldest fossils
    Martin D Brasier
    Earth Sciences Department, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK
    Nature 416:76-81. 2002
    ..Although there is no support for primary biological morphology, a Fischer--Tropsch-type synthesis of carbon compounds and carbon isotopic fractionation is inferred for one of the oldest known hydrothermal systems on Earth...
  2. ncbi Earth's oldest (approximately 3.5 Ga) fossils and the 'Early Eden hypothesis': questioning the evidence
    Martin Brasier
    Department of Earth Sciences, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PR, UK
    Orig Life Evol Biosph 34:257-69. 2004
    ....
  3. ncbi A fresh look at the fossil evidence for early Archaean cellular life
    Martin Brasier
    Oxford University, Department of Earth Sciences, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 361:887-902. 2006
    ..Preliminary studies invite comparison with a class of ambient inclusion trails of putative microbial origin and with the activities of modern anaerobic proteobacteria and volcanic glass euendoliths...
  4. ncbi Pumice as a remarkable substrate for the origin of life
    Martin D Brasier
    Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Astrobiology 11:725-35. 2011
    ..These remarkable properties now deserve to be rigorously explored in the laboratory and the early rock record...
  5. ncbi Introduction: How and when did microbes change the world?
    Thomas Cavalier-Smith
    University of Oxford, Department of Zoology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 361:845-50. 2006
  6. ncbi Paleobiology. Decoding the Ediacaran enigma
    Martin Brasier
    Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University, OX1 3PR, UK
    Science 305:1115-7. 2004
  7. ncbi Impact craters as biospheric microenvironments, Lawn Hill Structure, Northern Australia
    John Lindsay
    Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, Texas 77598, USA
    Astrobiology 6:348-63. 2006
    ..Nutrient recycling, critical to a closed lacustrine sub-ice biosphere, could be provided by eolian transport onto the frozen water surface...