The stromatolites here are around 3,430 million years old, ... Lowe, D. R. Stromatolites 3,400 Myr old from the Archean of Western Australia. Nature 284, 441–443 (1980) ...

Allwood et al. Inaugural Article: Controls on development and diversity of Early Archean stromatolites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2009; 106 (24): 9548 DOI: 10.1073/pnas ...

Stromatolites, the first signs of life, are present in the shallow water. (Graphic: Tim Bertelink, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org) The present-day formation of continental crust can be ...

Stromatolites are dome- or column-like sedimentary rock structures that are formed in shallow water, layer by layer, over long periods of geologic time. Now, researchers from the California ...

The humble stromatolite fossils may not look as cool as dinosaurs, but they were the rulers of ancient Earth — and none of us would be here without ... Earth was nothing like it is now. Were you to ...

A paleo-Archean parade It was these conical shapes, however, that first puzzled Allwood. The triangles seemed to be perfectly aligned, each sliced through at their peak by the weathered rock face.

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 ...

Stromatolites are the earliest geological record of life on Earth. These curious biotic structures are made of algae carpets growing toward the light and precipitating carbonates. After their ...

Stromatolites are layered carbonate structures formed by ... in ancient oceans and played a crucial role in increasing atmospheric oxygen around 2.2 billion years ago during the Archean era.