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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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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...
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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...
- 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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consists of
unmetamorphosed to
slightly metamorphosed sandstone,
stromatolite-bearing dolomite,
banded iron formation, and basalt.
Further west, exposed...
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palaeontological findings in its surroundings.
Fossilised stromatolites found nearby (one of the
earliest forms of life on Earth) have been...
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known life,
mostly represented by shallow-water
microbial mats
called stromatolites,
started in the
Archean and
remained simple prokaryotes (archaea and...
- cyanobacteria.
Thrombolites have a
clotted structure without the
laminae of
stromatolites. Each clot
within a
thrombolite mound is a
separate cyanobacterial colony...
- 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...
