STROMATOLITE (POLISHED SLICE) - 100 million years old - Andes Mountains, Bolivia
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Cut and polished
100 million years old
(Cretaceous period)
Potosi, Andes Mountains, Bolivia
This is a beautiful example of a stromatolite preserved in rock. Cut and polished on all sides.
Stromatolites are structures formed in shallow water by cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). They are among the oldest fossils, dating back 3.5 billion years. They use water, carbon dioxide and sunlight to create food and give out oxygen as a by-product and are thought to have been responsible for the oxygen in the Earth’s primaeval atmosphere. Today stromatolite communities are rare.
Presented in a lidded gift box.
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Size: 10.5 x 6.5 x 0.5 centimetres
Weight: 104 grams
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