What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History
by
Susan M. Gaines, Geoffrey Eglinton, Jurgen Rullkotter
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
In 1936 a German chemist identified certain organic molecules that he had extracted from ancient rocks and oils as the fossil remains of chlorophyll--presumably from plants that had lived and died millions of years in the past. It was another twenty-five years before this insight was developed and...