Scientists have discovered a previously hidden ecosystem with an expansive system of lagoons in the salt plains of Puna de Atacama, an arid plateau in Argentina — with giant stromatolites that could ...
With an age of 3.5 million years, stromatolites are among the oldest fossils. However, lime deposits have so far occurred only in shallow seas with water depths of up to ten meters. Because the ...
Boulder, Colo., USA: The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and because such ...
Interpretation of microbial fossils with special reference to the Precambrian / St. Golubić and E.S. Barghoorn -- Evolving concepts on the nature and the ecological significance of stromatolites : a ...
Current Science is a fortnightly journal published since 1932 by the Current Science Association, Bangalore (India) in collaboration with the Indian Academy of Sciences. The journal covers all ...
The early earth / editor, D.R. Nelson. Earth's formation and first billion years / D.R. Nelson. The early Precambrian stratigraphic record of large extraterrestrial impacts / B.M. Simonson, G.R.
New research provides new insight into one of the world's most diverse and extensive ecosystems of living microbes. The study offers a new perspective on the growth and structure of rare, microbial ...
Earth has an astonishingly long geologic time span, but evidence of early life forms on our planet can still be seen today in the form of distinctive bodies of rock called stromatolites. The Wyoming ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 106, No. 27 (Jul. 7, 2009), pp. 10939-10943 (5 pages) Conical stromatolites are thought to be robust indicators of ...
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