Clues of Early Life: Dixon Island–Cleaverville Drilling Project (DXCL-DP) in the Pilbara Craton of Western Australia

The Pilbara Craton in NW Australia (Fig. 1) exposes one of the well-preserved and least -metamorphosed greenstone belts in the Archean. Greenstone belts are normally composed of a complex amalgam of meta-basaltic and meta-sedimentary rocks. Sedimentary rocks of the greenstone belts are good targets...

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Main Authors: Fumio Kitajima, Minoru Ikehara, Takashi Ito, Shoichi Kiyokawa, Kosei E. Yamaguchi, Yusuke Suganuma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2009-03-01
Series:Scientific Drilling
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Online Access:http://www.iodp.org/images/stories/downloads/sd7_09.pdf#page=34