Geobiology Photos

 

Stromatolites with chert laminations from the Late Archean		Late Archean banded iron formation from drill core taken
(ca. 2.55 Ga) Malmani carbonate plateform, South Africa		near Griquatown, South Africa
A Strelley Pool Formation stromatolites. These stromatolites, discovered by		Field Work: Measuring sectionsin the Edicaran-age Huqf
Abby Allwood (JPL), provide strong evidence for the presence of early life on		Supergroup, along the coastline of the Sultanate of Oman.
Earth, and are ~3.45 billion years old. They are located in the Pilbara craton of Western Australia.
John Abelson takes a rest on a 2.55 billion-year-old giant stromatolite,		Grand Canyon. Strata exposed in these walls, first
Nothern Cape Province, South Africa		examined by John Wesley Powell, still constitute one
		of the most impressive records of the evolution
		of life on earth.