But the new study, by Christopher M. Fedo, a George Washington University geologist, and Martin J. Whitehouse of the Swedish Museum of Natural History, concludes the Akilia deposit was formed from superheated melted rock and that the enriched levels of carbon-12 could have been caused by chemical action, not by some life form.Let's build a Time Machine and find out for SURE !
"Our conclusion is that the rock came from a source that was molten, like a volcanic fountain," said Fedo, first author of the study released Friday in the journal Science. "The temperatures of molten rock would be far in excess of anything living. Therefore, any carbon in there got there by some other process."