Elso Barghoorn
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn was an American paleobotanist, called by his student Andrew Knoll, the present Fisher Professor of Natural History at Harvard, "the father of Pre-Cambrian palaeontology." Barghoorn is best known for discovering in South African rocks fossil evidence of life that is at least 3.4 billion years old. These fossils show that life was present on Earth comparatively soon after the Late Heavy Bombardment .
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- Microorganisms from the Gunflint Chert: These structurally preserved Precambrian fossils from Ontario are the most ancient organisms known. (1965) (606)
- Late Quaternary Sea-Level Change and Crustal Rise at Boston, Massachusetts, with Notes on the Autocompaction of Peat (1964) (250)
- Occurrence of Structurally Preserved Plants in Pre-Cambrian Rocks of the Canadian Shield. (1954) (231)
- Archean microfossils showing cell division from the swaziland system of South Africa. (1977) (219)
- Marine fungi : their taxonomy and biology (1944) (210)
- Microorganisms Three Billion Years Old from the Precambrian of South Africa (1966) (205)
- THE GUNFLINT MICROBIOTA (1977) (150)
- Alga-Like Fossils from the Early Precambrian of South Africa (1967) (145)
- Microorganisms from the Late Precambrian of Central Australia (1965) (136)
- Paleobiology of a Precambrian Shale (1965) (120)
- On the experimental silicification of microorganisms II. On the time of appearance of eukaryotic organisms in the fossil record (1978) (116)
- THE ONTOGENETIC DEVELOPMENT AND PHYLOGENETIC SPECIALIZATION OF RAYS IN THE XYLEM OF DICOTYLEDONS. II. MODIFICATION OF THE MULTISERIATE AND UNISERIATE RAYS (1941) (104)
- Precambrian Eukaryotic Organisms: A Reassessment of the Evidence (1975) (102)
- Interpretation of Microbial Fossils with Special Reference to the Precambrian (1977) (101)
- The microbial community in the layered sediments at Laguna Figueroa, Baja California, Mexico: Does it have Precambrian analogues? (1980) (97)
- Hydrocarbons of Biological Origin in Sediments about Two Billion Years Old (1965) (93)
- The oldest fossils. (1971) (90)
- Electron Microscopy of Fossil Bacteria Two Billion Years Old (1965) (80)
- Microfossil-like objects from the Archaean of Greenland: a cautionary note (1981) (76)
- Fossil Dicotyledonous Woods from Yellowstone National Park, II (1978) (76)
- Miocene fossil woods from the Columbia basalts of Central Washington (1961) (76)
- The ontogenetic development and phylogenetic specialization of rays in the xylem of dicotyledons. I. The primitive ray structure. (1940) (74)
- Biological Remnants in a Precambrian Sediment (1964) (73)
- Freshwater Peat on the Continental Shelf (1967) (72)
- Ambient pyrite grains in Precambrian cherts (1963) (64)
- New Microorganisms from the Aphebian Gunflint Iron Formation, Ontario (1978) (63)
- Fruits and seeds of the brandon lignite. I. Vitaceae (1976) (62)
- The Pollen of Ephedra (1959) (61)
- Chapter 4.4 Evolutionary Processes in the Formation of Stromatolites (1976) (59)
- Ambient pyrite in precambrian chert: new evidence and a theory. (1974) (58)
- Phenolic Aldehydes: Generation from Fossil Woods and Carbonaceous Sediments by Oxidative Degradation (1970) (56)
- Variation in stable carbon isotopes in organic matter from the Gunflint Iron Formation. [Precambrian rock analysis (1977) (54)
- Microorganisms from the late Precambrian of South Australia (1969) (52)
- ANTHRACITIC COAL FROM PRECAMBRIAN UPPER HURONIAN BLACK SHALE OF THE IRON RIVER DISTRICT, NORTHERN MICHIGAN (1957) (51)
- Paleopleurocapsa wopfnerii gen. et sp. nov.: A Late Precambrian alga and its modern counterpart. (1975) (49)
- Micro-organisms from the late Precambrian Narssârssuk Formation, north-western Greenland (1983) (46)
- Geological and botanical study of the Brandon lignite and its significance in coal petrology [Vermont] (1950) (41)
- The origin of ray initials in the cambium. (1940) (41)
- Fossil Maize from Panama (1969) (41)
- Primary productivity in an early Archean microbial ecosystem (1979) (40)
- Evolution of Cambium in Geologic Time (1964) (40)
- WOOD OF GINKGO IN THE TERTIARY OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA (1962) (40)
- Morphological and Paleobotanical Studies of the Nyssaceae, II: the Fossil Record (1963) (38)
- Biological implications of the Viking mission to Mars (1978) (38)
- On the experimental silicification of microorganisms. III. Implications of the preservation of the green prokaryotic alga prochloron and other coccoids for interpretation of the microbial fossil record (1978) (38)
- Fossil Maize from the Valley of Mexico (1954) (36)
- Fossil Record of Alangium (1969) (35)
- Coalification of Woody Tissue as Deduced From a Petrographic Study of Brandon Lignite (1966) (34)
- Amino acids in Precambrian sediments: an assay. (1968) (34)
- Degradation of plant tissues in organic sediments (1952) (32)
- Search for Organic Compounds in the Lunar Dust from the Sea of Tranquiblity (1970) (32)
- Extra terrestrial abiogenic organization of organic matter: The hollow spheres of the Orgueil meteorite (1971) (30)
- FLORA OF THE BRANDON LIGNITE. IV. ILLICIACEAE (1979) (29)
- Silica gel as a microbiological medium: potentialities and a new method of preparation. (1954) (27)
- AGE AND ENVIRONMENT: A SURVEY OF NORTH AMERICAN TERTIARY FLORAS IN RELATION TO PALEOECOLOGY1 (1951) (26)
- Specificity of Microbiological Attack on Cellulose Derivatives (1949) (25)
- Degradation of Plant Remains in Organic Sediments (1949) (23)
- Horneophyton, a Necessary Change of Name For Hornea (1938) (22)
- Pollen Analytical Investigations of Pleistocene Deposits from Western North Carolina and South Carolina (1962) (22)
- FOSSIL ORGANISMS FROM PRECAMBRIAN SEDIMENTS (1963) (20)
- Identification of the Pollen of Maize, Teosinte and Tripsacum By Phase Contrast Microscopy (1965) (20)
- A Gunflint-type microbiota from the Duck Creek dolomite, Western Australia (1976) (19)
- On the Experiemntal Silicification of Microorganisms. I. Microbial Growth on Organosilicon Compounds (1977) (18)
- Sodium Chlorite as an Aid in Paleobotanical and Anatomical Study of Plant Tissues. (1948) (18)
- SPHENOSTROBUS THOMPSONII: A NEW GENUS OF THE SPENOPHYLLALES? (1948) (17)
- Age of plant fossils from the Worcester coal mine, Worcester, Massachusetts (1970) (17)
- The Viking mission: Implications for life on Mars (1979) (15)
- 20. EVIDENCE OF CLIMATIC CHANGE IN THE GEOLOGIC RECORD OF PLANT LIFE (1953) (14)
- A preliminary study of the flora of the Brandon lignite [Vermont] (1949) (13)
- Geochemistry of Organic Substances (1969) (13)
- THE OCCURRENCE OF CEDRUS IN THE AURIFEROUS GRAVELS OF CALIFORNIA (1938) (12)
- The natural relationships of some Carboniferous microspores (1964) (12)
- The Tapetal Membranes in Grasses and Ubisch Body Control of Mature Exine Pattern (1971) (12)
- Miocene Fossil Woods From the Columbia Basalts of Central Washington, II (1961) (11)
- Chapter 4: Origin of Life (1957) (11)
- DEGRADATION OF THE PLANT CELL WALL AND ITS RELATION TO CERTAIN TRACHEARY FEATURES OF THE LEPIDODENDRALES (1958) (11)
- Recent Changes in Sea Level Along the New England Coast: New Archaeological Evidence. (1953) (11)
- NATURAL MECHANISMS OF PROTECTION OF A BLUE-GREEN ALGA AGAINST ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT (1977) (11)
- Fossil Dicotyledonous Woods from Yellowstone National Park (1977) (11)
- “PRE‐CRETACEOUS” ANGIOSPERMS FROM UTAH: EVIDENCE FOR TERTIARY AGE OF THE PALM WOODS AND ROOTS (1972) (11)
- FOSSIL WOOD OF ROBINIA AND GLEDITSIA FROM THE TERTIARY OF MONTANA (1962) (10)
- Micropaleontology of the Brandon lignite, an early Tertiary coal in central Vermont; preliminary note (1953) (9)
- Use of Phenol Formaldehyde and Vinyl Resins in Sealing Liquid Mounting Media on Microscope Slides. (1947) (9)
- 19 – EOASTRION AND THE METALLOGENIUM PROBLEM (1977) (8)
- CHAPTER III – MICROORGANISMS OF MIDDLE PRECAMBRIAN AGE FROM THE ANIMIKIE SERIES, ONTARIO, CANADA (1965) (7)
- Medullosa olseniae: a Permian Medullosa from North Central Texas (1952) (6)
- Micropaleontological Study of Lunar Material (1970) (6)
- Phytocrene microcarpa - A new species of Icacinaceae based on Cretaceous fruits from Kreischerville, New York (1957) (6)
- A Useful Method for the Study of Pollen in Peat (1940) (6)
- Fossil Pollen And the Origin of Corn: Ancient Pollen from Deep Cores in Mexico Shows the Ancestor of Corn To Be Corn And Not Its Relative, Teosinte (1978) (5)
- Silica Gel as a Microbiological Medium (1954) (5)
- Identification and structure of cordaitean pollen (1962) (5)
- Collecting and Preserving Botanical Materials of Archaeological Interest (1944) (5)
- THE OCCURRENCE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF MARINE CELLULOSE-DESTROYING FUNGI. (1942) (4)
- The occurrence of Euptelea in the Cenozoic of Western North America (1955) (4)
- III. TWO BILLION YEARS OF PROKARYOTIC CELLS AND THE EMERGENCE OF EUKARYOTES (1974) (4)
- Micropaleontological study of lunar material from Apollo 11 (1970) (3)
- Histological study of the action of fungi on leather. (1950) (3)
- On 'The natural relationships of some Carboniferous microspores'; a reply (1965) (2)
- NEW MICROORGANISMS FROM THE APHEBIAN GUNFLINT (1978) (1)
- The Boylston Street Fishweir II: A Review@@@The Boylston Street Fishweir II: A Study of the Geology, Palaeobotany, and Biology of a Site on Stuart Street in the Back Bay District of Boston, Massachusetts (1951) (1)
- The Botanical Museum of Harvard University in Its 125th Year 1858-1983 (1984) (1)
- Fine Structure of Pollen Grain Ektexine of Maize, Teosinte and Tripsacum (1972) (1)
- Letter to Henryk B. Stenzel from Elso S. Barghoorn on 1950-05-10 (1950) (0)
- Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Elso S. Barghoorn on 1950-06-07 (1950) (0)
- The Brown Coal Formation of the Lower Rhine: Paleontological and Paleoecological Aspects (1960) (0)
- REJUVENATION OF SYSTEMATIC WOOD ANATOMY (1974) (0)
- Letter to H.B. Stenzel from Elso S. Barghoorn on 1950-06-16 (1950) (0)
- AMilIINO ACIDS IN PRECAMBRIAN SEDIMENTS: AN ASSA Y (0)
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