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FROM a reconnaissance survey of the oxygen isotope composition of a sequence of metamorphosed sedimentary rock units at Isua, West Greenland, it is possible to set wide temperature limits of ∼ 0–146 °C on the early Archaean ocean.
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OSKVAREK, J., PERRY, E. Temperature limits on the early Archaean ocean from oxygen isotope variations in the Isua supracrustal sequence, West Greenland. Nature 259, 192–194 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/259192a0
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