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Respect for stromatolites

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Is it time to stop worrying over whether the ancient structures called stromatolites are of microbial origin? ‘Yes’ is the answer to emerge from field and lab work on a 3,430-million-year-old marine ecosystem.

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Figure 1: Structure in the Strelley Pool Chert, Western Australia.

S. M. AWRAMIK

Figure 2: Cutting through the complexities of stromatolites.

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