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    The Gunflint chert (1.88 Ga) is a sequence of banded iron formation rocks that are exposed in the Gunflint Range of northern Minnesota and northwestern...
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    2021. Gunflint chert Archived 2005-06-12 at the Wayback Machine Biogenicity of Microfossils in the Apex Chert "Portion Of Ancient Australian Chert Microstructures...
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    Stromatolite structures are evident within the Gunflint Iron Formation. The cherts of the Gunflint (the Gunflint Chert) are noted for containing Precambrian microfossils...
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  • oxygen-using organisms. It is also one of the most common fossils in the Gunflint chert. Palmer, Douglas; et al. (2009). Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual...
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  • microorganism. Kakabekia umbellata was first found in the 1.88 billion year old Gunflint Chert, and in 1966, a living member of the genus, Kakabekia barghoorniana...
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    million years ago. The Gunflint Range consists of a basal conglomerate, then the Gunflint Iron formation and the Gunflint Chert with the Rove Formation...
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    lakes formed. The Ojibwa and French explorers found chert, which produces sparks, at Gunflint Lake and gave the trail its name. In contemporary times...
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    microfossils reveals differential heterotrophic consumption in the ~1.9-Ga Gunflint chert PNAS 110 (20) 8020-8024 doi:10.1073/pnas.1221965110 Raiswell, R. (1997)...
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    million years old, Diskagma was larger than coeval marine microbes of the Gunflint Chert, and more complex than stromatolites. Retallack, G.J.; Krull, E.S.;...
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    microfossils reveals differential heterotrophic consumption in the ~1.9-Ga Gunflint chert PNAS 110 (20) 8020-8024 doi:10.1073/pnas.1221965110 Raiswell, R. (1997)...
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    carbon-14 dating. 1953 — Stanley A. Tyler discovers microfossils in the gunflint chert formation of cyanobacteria that created pre-Cambrian stromatolites approximately...
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    Ancient microfossils have been found in the banded iron formations of the Gunflint Chert. The Boundary Waters area is near the border of the true boreal forest...
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    Canals from 1892 to 1905. The town is near the main exposure of the Gunflint chert, which contains rare single-celled Proterozoic fossils. Passing close...
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    Flint (redirect from Gunflint)
    cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was widely...
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  • Gabon produced by uranium-precipitant bacteria. c. 1,900–,880 Ma – Gunflint chert biota forms flourishes including prokaryotes like Kakabekia, Gunflintia...
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    Schreiber, Ontario Gunflint Chert Late Archaean – Early Proterozoic North America Canada: western Ontario & US: Minnesota (Gunflint Range) Stromatolite...
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    1 billion-year-old cyanobacteria and fungi-like microflora at their Gunflint Chert fossil site. Eleven years later, Barghoorn and J. William Schopf reported...
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    considered to be robust, extend on Earth to the 1.9-billion-year-old Gunflint Chert; they may include the four-billion-year-old Martian meteorite ALH84001...
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    less certain reports of magnetofossils extend to 1.9 billion years old Gunflint chert. There have also been claims of their existence on Mars based on the...
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    less certain reports of magnetofossils extend to 1.9 billion years old Gunflint Chert. Some marine prokaryotes possess gas vacuoles. Gas vacuole are nanocompartments...
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    and contains significant deposits of iron ore. Together with the Mesabi, Gunflint, and Cuyuna ranges, these four constitute the Iron Ranges of northern Minnesota...
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  • Knapped stone tools are made from cryptocrystalline materials such as chert, flint, radiolarite, chalcedony, obsidian, basalt, and quartzite via a splitting...
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  • Barghoorn, Elso S.; Tyler, Stanley A. (1965). "Microorganisms from the Gunflint Chert". Science. 147 (3658): 563–575. Bibcode:1965Sci...147..563B. doi:10...
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    August 2015. Austin, Robert (2011). "Gunflints from Fort Brooke: A Study and Some Hypotheses Regarding Gunflint Procurement". Florida Anthropoligist....
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    Banded iron formation (category Chert)
    sedimentary rock consisting of alternating layers of iron oxides and iron-poor chert. They can be up to several hundred meters in thickness and extend laterally...
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    Devonian fossil assemblage from the Rhynie chert. These early plants were preserved by being petrified in chert formed in silica-rich volcanic hot springs...
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    Clear Creek Chert Clear Creek Formation Pragian New Harmony Group Backbone Limestone Hunton Megagroup Backbone Limestone Grassy Knob Chert Bailey Limestone...
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    Manganese, Minnesota Mesabi Range Gogebic Range Vermilion Range (Minnesota) Gunflint Range Marquette Iron Range Banded iron formation Schmidt, Robert (1963)...
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    Lower South-East of South Australia. Banded iron formation Cotham Marble Gunflint Range Laguna Negra, Catamarca Microbially induced sedimentary structure...
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    Clear Creek Chert Clear Creek Formation Pragian New Harmony Group Backbone Limestone Hunton Megagroup Backbone Limestone Grassy Knob Chert Bailey Limestone...
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