Vestiges of a beginning: Clues to the emergent biosphere recorded in the oldest known sedimentary rocks

By S. Mojzsis, T. Mark. 2000

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Exploration of hydrothermal targets on Mars (2007, background): “85 Ga (Mojzsis and Harrison, 2000) and opens the possibility that life may have been transferred from Earth to Mars or vice versa via impact panspermia (Melosh, 1988).”
Impact‐induced hydrothermal activity on early Mars (2005, background): “…imply a thermophilic or hyperthermophilic common ancestor [e.g., Pace, 1997], which, along with the earliest isotopic evidence of life at 3.85 Ga [Mojzsis and Harrison, 2000] coinciding with the cataclysm, suggest that impact-induced hydrothermal systems played an important role in the origin…”
Cataclysmic bombardment throughout the inner solar system 3.9–4.0 Ga (2002, background): “…to Earth, which would explain why the oldest crustal rocks have similar 3.8– 4.0 Ga ages [e.g., Bowring et al., 1989; Bowring and Williams, 1999; Mojzsis and Harrison, 2000] and only a few mineral relics of older crustal rocks survive [Froude et al., 1983; Wilde et al., 2001; Mojzsis et al.,…”