Stromatolites (/stroʊˈmætəˌlaɪts, strə-/ stroh-MAT-ə-lytes, strə-) or stromatoliths (from Ancient Greek στρῶμα (strôma), GEN στρώματος (strṓmatos) 'layer...

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...

Lichen stromatolites are laminar calcretes that are proposed as being formed by a sequence of repetitions of induration followed by lichen colonization...

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. 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...

and consist of unmetamorphosed to slightly metamorphosed sandstone, stromatolite-bearing dolomite, banded iron formation, and basalt. Further west, exposed...

evolution. Around the same time, the layered mats of microorganisms called stromatolites decreased in diversity, perhaps due to grazing by newly evolved animals...

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...

Reich, Mike (2011): Founding of the Term 'Stromatolite': Ernst Louis Kalkowsky(1851-1938) and his Early Stromatolite Research, in: Reitner, Joachim / Quéric...

impression of the Archean, the eon after Earth's formation, featuring round stromatolites, which are early oxygen-producing forms of life from billions of years...

Conophyton is a genus of stromatolite-forming cyanobacteria from the Neoproterozoic era. Fossils have been found in many countries, including Australia...

Supracrustal Belt in Greenland. The earliest direct known life on land may be stromatolites which have been found in 3.480-billion-year-old geyserite uncovered...

between carbonates, claystones and evaporates. Its base is delimited by a stromatolite bed. Below the Guelph is the Eramosa Formation. This formation is typically...

known life, mostly represented by shallow-water microbial mats called stromatolites, started in the Archean and remained simple prokaryotes (archaea and...

composing stromatolites located in Highbourne Cay, The Bahamas, her work has provided insights into the microbial diversity and ecology of stromatolites and...

Dark layers made of shungite in a stromatolite, Franceville Basin, Gabon, Central Africa...

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...

and frog orchid. A stromatolite colony was reportedly found at the Giant's Causeway in October 2011 – an unusual find, as stromatolites are more commonly...

for some palaeontological findings in its surroundings. Fossilised stromatolites found nearby (one of the earliest forms of life on Earth) have been...

and most diverse seagrass beds in the world. However, it is for its stromatolites (colonies of microbial mats that form hard, dome-shaped deposits which...

Site Official name Vredefort Dome Includes Vredefort Dome core area The stromatolite/basal fault plane site The chocolate tablet breccia site The pseudotachylite...

Geological Society of America. Born in New England, he first studied stromatolites as a graduate student under famed paleobotanist Elso Sterrenberg Barghoorn...

Stromatolite fossil estimated at 3.2–3.6 billion years old...

Stromatolites are left behind by cyanobacteria, also called blue-green algae. They are among the oldest fossils of life on Earth. This one-billion-year-old...

K.A. (2003). "Biofilm, Biodictyon, Biomat Microbialites, Oolites, Stromatolites, Geophysiology, Global Mechanism, Parahistology". In Krumbein, W.E.;...

evolution of shelly macroscopic organisms, but they still exist today. Stromatolites, for instance, are microbial mounds with a laminated internal structure...

of marine animals, grazing on the stromatolite mats by herbivores greatly reduced the occurrence of the stromatolites in marine environments. Since then...

Mamley Stromatolite Park Namchi South Sikkim district Sikkim Geo-tourism: Also called "Buxa Formation of Mamley", is Algal mat#StromatolitesStromatolite Algal...

Reef-building archaeocyathan sponges initially abundant, then vanish. Stromatolites replace them, but quickly fall prey to the Agronomic revolution, when...

red bed) Costello Formation (carbonate slope deposit) Mavor Formation (stromatolite reef complex) Tukarak Formation (shallow water carbonate) Fairweather...