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Stromatolites: Ancient, Beautiful, and Earth-Altering
Bob Leis
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Description for Stromatolites: Ancient, Beautiful, and Earth-Altering
Paperback. Illustrator(s): McKee, Terry A. Num Pages: 176 pages, 636 colour illus. BIC Classification: WNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 280 x 15. Weight in Grams: 882.
A colorful look at 3.5 billion years of stromatolites, peculiar structures produced by primitive life forms that lived over vast spans of geologic time. At once diverse, attractive, and sometimes puzzling, fossilized stromatolites are found worldwide in sedimentary rocks-often presenting striking patterns-where they grew in ancient bodies of water that covered parts of the earth billions of years before the dinosaurs. This reference presents a basic, nontechnical account, along with 636 beautiful images of these most ancient of Earthly collectibles. Stromatolites, and the cyanobacteria that produced most of them, were responsible not only for the fossils themselves, but also, more ... Read more
A colorful look at 3.5 billion years of stromatolites, peculiar structures produced by primitive life forms that lived over vast spans of geologic time. At once diverse, attractive, and sometimes puzzling, fossilized stromatolites are found worldwide in sedimentary rocks-often presenting striking patterns-where they grew in ancient bodies of water that covered parts of the earth billions of years before the dinosaurs. This reference presents a basic, nontechnical account, along with 636 beautiful images of these most ancient of Earthly collectibles. Stromatolites, and the cyanobacteria that produced most of them, were responsible not only for the fossils themselves, but also, more ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
881g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764348976
SKU
V9780764348976
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About Bob Leis
Bruce L. Stinchcomb is a retired professor of geology and has published extensively in both non-technical and technical literature, which includes extensive material on Cambrian fossils of the Ozarks. He also has written ten other Schiffer titles on fossils and other geo-collectibles.
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