In Situ Infrared Microspectroscopy of ;850 Million-Year-Old Prokaryotic Fossils
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Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O-okayama 2-12-1, Meguro, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan (M.I., S.M.); Department of Earth and Space Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka-shi, Osaka 560-0043, Japan (M.I., S.N.); Research Center for the Evolving Earth and Planets, Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Post No. S2-17 Midori-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa 226-8503, Japan (Y.U.); and Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 (S.A.)
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