The living rocks in the Hamelin Pool lagoon of Shark Bay in Western Australia convey a vivid impression of how Earth may have looked like at the beginning of life 3500 million years ago. The living rocks are stromatolites. They consist of thin mats of blue-green...
The Marra Mamba banded iron ore of Karijini’s Hamersley Range in northwest Australia is an archaic natural artwork, created by the first microorganisms that inhibited the early Earth. About 2500 million years ago, the shallow seas off the coasts of the Pilbara...
Hamersley Gorge with its picturesque Spa Pool in Karijini National Park in northwest Australia opens a window into the beginning of Earth, into a time when bacteria were the only inhabitants on our young planet. These colorful layers of rock are banded iron ores that...
The banded iron ores of the Hamersley Gorge in Karijini National Park of northwestern Australia date back to the archaic epoch of our planet. About 2500 million years ago, these layered banded iron sediments were deposited at the bottom of a shallow sea. Bacteria...
The Pinnacles of Nambung in Western Australia tower beneath the majestic arc of the bright Southern Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds, two irregular dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way galaxy. It is not difficult to imagine that this image could well have been...
