Periodic Reporting for period 3 - EARTHBLOOM (Earth’s first biological bloom: An integrated field, geochemical, and geobiological examination of the origins of photosynthesis and carbonate production 3 billion years ago)

The ERC Starting Grant Project EARTHBLOOM (2017-2022) aims to better understand the first steps in the evolution of photosynthesis and carbonate mineral production on the early Earth. The biosphere has been dominated by microbial life for most of Earth’s four and a half...