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[7] [8] Different styles of stromatolite lamination have been described, [9] [10] which can be studied through microscopic and mathematical methods. [10] A stromatolite may grow to a meter or more. [11] [12] Fossilized stromatolites provide important records of some of the
The microbes are photosynthetic; thus stromatolites represent shallow water environments in the fossil record due to their necessity to exist in the photic zone of water bodies. Stromatolites typically consist of filamentous microfossils. [17] The oldest stromatolites have been dated to approximately 3.5 billion years old. [18]
The Gunflint Chert is composed of biogenic stromatolites. [3] At the time of its discovery in the 1950s, it was the earliest form of life discovered and described in scientific literature, as well as the earliest evidence for photosynthesis . [ 4 ]
The earliest direct evidence of life are stromatolites found in 3.48 billion-year-old chert in the Dresser formation of the Pilbara Craton in Western Australia. [4] Several features in these fossils are difficult to explain with abiotic processes, for example, the thickening of laminae over flexure crests that is expected from more sunlight. [57]
Rise of Stromatolites: microbial mats become successful forming the first reef building communities on Earth in shallow warm tidal pool zones (to 1.5 Gyr). Tanzania Craton forms. c. 2,940 Ma – Yilgarn Craton of western Australia forms by the accretion of a multitude of formerly present blocks or terranes of existing continental crust.
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The Fig Tree Formation, also called Fig Tree Group, is a stromatolite-containing geological formation in South Africa. The rock contains fossils of microscopic life forms of about 3.26 billion years old. [1] Identified organisms include the bacterium Eobacterium isolatum and the algae-like Archaeosphaeroides barbertonensis.
The Importance of Pacific Herring to Birds and Other Wildlife in California and the Northwest Pacific Marine areas off central and northern California are some of the Pacific’s most important areas for marine wildlife. This region attracts and retains a high density of whales, pinnipeds, turtles, large fish, and birds.