Ancient mud volcanoes perfect for early life: study
Monday, October 17, 2011 - 19:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Ancient deep-sea mud volcanoes may have been ideal settings for early life on Earth, researchers suggest. Scientists investigated some of the oldest remnants of crust on Earth — rocks 3.7 billion to 3.8 billion years old from Isua on the southwestern coast of Greenland.