Primitive Cyanobacteria on the Pristine Earth and Relicts in Contemporary Bodies of Water

Vestnik Otdelenia nauk o Zemle RAN, VOL. 10, NZ9001, doi:10.2205/2018NZ000354, 2018

Primitive Cyanobacteria on the Pristine Earth and Relicts in Contemporary Bodies of Water

A. S. Lopuchin

Marine Hydrophysical Institute of RAS

Abstract

Abstract—The report "The Making of the Biosphere" by the outstanding microbiologist G. A. Zavarzin to the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2001 established a regularity of the persistence of cyanobacteria throughout the entire geological history of the Earth (3.5 bln years), indisputably indicating their primitiveness on the pristine Earth and making it possible to interpret demonstrably the conditions for the origin of life, in principle, on all planets of the solar system, comparing the extreme conditions of contemporary geyser and volcano valleys. For the first time, this work verifies and correlates the finds of fossil cyanobacteria in the Earth's Precambrian sediments regarding their identity for 3.5 bln years. The Microcystis aeruginosa Elenkin relicts are traced in contemporary bodies of water.

KEY WORDS: Precambrian, microfossils, cyanobacteria, persistence, phacoids, colonies of cyanobacteria, Menneria roblotae Lopuchin

Received 24 July 2018; rewieved 8 August 2018; published 17 September 2018.

Doi: https://doi.org/10.2205/2018NZ000354

Citation: Lopuchin, A. S. (2018), Primitive Cyanobacteria on the Pristine Earth and Relicts in Contemporary Bodies of Water, Vestn. Otd. nauk Zemle, 10, NZ9001, doi:10.2205/2018NZ000354.