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Nature 441, 700-701 (8 June 2006) | doi:10.1038/441700a; Published online 7 June 2006
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Palaeontology: Respect for stromatolites
Stanley M. Awramik1
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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.
Writing in these pages earlier this year1, Don E. Canfield wrote of an early Earth teeming with a variety of microorganisms.
- Stanley M. Awramik is in the Department of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
Email: awramik@geol.ucsb.edu
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