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About this piece
A slice of very deep time. Stromatolites are layered structures built up over centuries by mats of microbes that trapped and bound sediment a thin film at a time, and they count among the oldest visible records of life on earth, going back billions of years. Living examples still grow in a few places, which is part of what makes them extraordinary: a life form that has barely changed since before complex life existed.
The polished face makes that slow build-up readable, almost like grain in wood but on a geological clock. It came to us at auction from a regional Victorian museum collection, dispersed when the museum closed, which is the kind of afterlife these objects tend to have. We don't tie it to a single locality.
Specifications
- Fossil specimen
- Polished face, rough outer edge
- 15 x 10 x 2.2 cm (H x W x D)
- Acquired at auction from a regional Victorian museum collection
- Color
- Brown
- Style
- Other
- Material
- Stone
- Condition
- Good
- Dimensions (cm)
- W 10D 2.2H 15
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