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Why the importance of stromatolites in the oxygenation of the earth?
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Was there oxygen in the atmosphere of early earth?
No! Stromatolites converted the toxic atmosphere into a breathable one.
What process do scientists think provided earth with an oxygen-rich atmosphere?
Scientists believe that stromatolites were responsible for providing an oxygen-rich atmosphere in precambrian times. Stromatolites are structures formed of sediment. The cyanobacteria that formed these structures were photoautotrophs that used sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to produce their food and a byproduct of oxygen.
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What are banded iron formations associated with?
BIFs are associated with the oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere, over vast periods of time, in Earth's distant past. They are also a vast storehouse of the element iron (mainly in the form of the minerals hematite and magnetite), and are mined for such.
What organism had the greatest impact on earth?
Blue green algae (stromatolites), they terraformed the planet.
Was there oxygen in the atmosphere of early earth?
No! Stromatolites converted the toxic atmosphere into a breathable one.
When did Stromatolites become extinct?
The are examples of stromatolites still living. They are not extinct.
What (who)are stromatolites?
The stromatolites are the layered mounds, columns, and the sheet-like sedimentary rocks.
Are stromatolites fossils of early organisms?
That's right; stromatolites are fossils of very old bacterial colonies. Stromatolites are layered accretionary structures formed in shallow water by the trapping, binding and cementation of sedimentary grains by bio-films of microorganisms, especially cyanobacteria (commonly known as blue-green algae). Stromatolites are a major constituent of the fossil record for about the first 3.5 billion years of life on earth and were responsible for creating the atmosphere we breathe.
What is The earliest life forms on earth lived?
The earliest ones still around are stromatolites, but there were lots of earlier life forms.
What organisms first introduced oxygen into earth's atmosphere?
Colonies of algae-like single celled organisms called stromatolites
What have scientist inferred from fossil stromatolites?
Stromatolites were much more abundant on the planet in Precambrian times which means that fossils found around stromatolites are typically from the Precambrian era.
What are found on the outer surfaces of stromatolites?
Biofilms of microorganisms, especially cyanobacteria, are found on the outter surfaces of stromatolites.
What are the oldest fossils?
Stromatolites.
How is a structure built?
Stromatolites
Where do we get the oxygen from that we breathe in?
The early Earth atmosphere was toxic until the Stromatolites converted it to the nitrogen/oxygen mixture we now have. It is maintained by the trees and algae.
