Press release from Boston College via geology.com:
Carbon found within ancient rocks has played a crucial role developing a time line for the emergence of biological life on the planet billions of years ago. But applying cutting-edge technology to samples of ancient rocks from northern Canada has revealed the carbon-based minerals may be much younger than the rock they inhabit, Boston College Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Dominic Papineau and a team of researchers report in the latest edition of the journal Nature Geoscience.
