News tagged with stromatolites
Stepping stones through time
Stromatolites are the most ancient fossils on Earth, and these structures built by microbes can still be found forming today in various places around the globe. Although they provide a straight line of life’s ...
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Bacterial growths may offer clues about Earth's distant past
One way that geologists try to decipher how cells functioned as far back as 3 billion years is by studying modern microbial mats, or gooey layers of nutrient-exchanging bacteria that grow mostly on moist surfaces ...
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May 17, 2010 |
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First Fossil-Makers in Hot Water
Microbe mats in Yellowstone's hot springs may be living analogs of the primordial microbe communities that constructed the oldest rock fossils on Earth.
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Mar 02, 2010 |
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Bacterial 'ropes' tie down shifting Southwest
Researchers from Arizona State University have discovered that several species of microbes (cyanobacteria), at least one found prominently in the deserts of the Southwest, have evolved the trait of rope-building ...
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Scientists say that microbial mats built 3.4-billion-year-old stromatolites
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 Institute of Technology ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 16, 2009 |
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