A synthesis of new and existing data reveals that at least seven major shear zones and an
unconformity separate the rocks of the southern Barberton Greenstone Belt into seven units …

Microtextures in metavolcanic pillow lavas from the Barberton greenstone belt of South
Africa have been argued to represent Earth's oldest trace fossil, preserving evidence for …

Detrital zircon grains in coarse-grained sedimentary rocks of the Noisy
formation,(traditionally considered as the H6 unit of the uppermost Hooggenoeg Formation) …

Low-grade metabasites and hydrothermally altered ultramafic rocks form most of the
Paleoarchean Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB) of South Africa. However, P–T constraints …

Recognition of oceanic crust in Archean greenstone belts has remained a controversial and
unresolved issue, with implications for understanding early Earth geodynamics. In the …

Earth is the most mineralogically diverse planet in our solar system, the direct consequence
of a coevolving geosphere and biosphere. We consider the possibility that a microbial …

The low-temperature alteration of submarine volcanic glasses has been argued to involve
the activity of microorganisms, and analogous fluid-rock-microbial-mediated alteration has …

This study presents the first multiple sulfur isotope dataset on sulfides from the ca. 3.5–3.2
Ga Onverwacht Group in the Paleoarchean Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB) of South …

Subseafloor environments preserved in Archean greenstone belts provide an analogue for
investigating potential subsurface habitats on Mars. The c. 3.5–3.4 Ga pillow lava …

The Palaeoarchean supracrustal rocks of the Barberton Greenstone Belt (BGB) consist of
hydrothermally altered volcanic and silicified sedimentary rocks that form the dramatic …