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Stromatolites (/stroʊˈmætəˌlaɪts, strə-/ stroh-MAT-ə-lytes, strə-) or
stromatoliths (from
Ancient Gr**** στρῶμα (strôma), GEN στρώματος (strṓmatos) 'layer...
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Lichen stromatolites are
laminar calcretes that are
proposed as
being formed by a
sequence of
repetitions of
induration followed by
lichen colonization...
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Supracrustal Belt in Greenland. The
earliest direct known life on
Earth are
stromatolite fossils which have been
found in 3.480-billion-year-old
geyserite uncovered...
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Bhojunda Stromatolite Park is
located near
Bhojunda village which is
about 6 km south-west of
Chittaurgarh city in Rajasthan, India. It is
spread across...
- cyanobacteria.
Stromatolites provide some of the most
ancient fossil records of life on Earth,
dating back more than 3.5 billion
years ago.
Stromatolites were much...
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reserve boasts the most
diverse and
abundant examples of
living marine stromatolites in the world,
monuments to life on
Earth over 3,500 million
years BP...
- cyanobacteria.
Thrombolites have a
clotted structure without the
laminae of
stromatolites. Each clot
within a
thrombolite mound is a
separate cyanobacterial colony...
- This is a list of all
extinct cyanobacteria genera that
formed stromatolites. "Proceedings of the
Linnean Society of New
South Wales". 79. 1954: 95–96...
- Much of the
fossilized stromatolites of the
world can be
found in
Western Australia. There, some of the
oldest stromatolites have been found, some dating...
- environments,
marine and not. The best age[clarify] for
stromatolites was from 2800 Ma to 1000 Ma when
stromatolites were the main
constituents of
carbonate platforms...
