Deep In Aussie

Even the grey skies in Perth feel like art ☁️

Exploring one of nature’s oldest storytellers, the thrombolites of Western Australia 🌊🪨 Over 2000 years old and still shaping our world.

Thrombolites look like rocks but are ancient forms of microbial communities that photosynthesize (produce energy from sunlight). They obtain calcium carbonate from the water to form these structures that are about 2000 years old.

600 million years ago the ancestors of thrombolites and stromatolites produced the oxygen needed for life on land to exist. Today you can only find them in a few places in Western Australia and the world.
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