Figure 8: Images comparing stromatolite morphology, microbes, and microfabrics of Hamelin Pool (modern) and Precambrian stromatolites (ancient).
From: New multi-scale perspectives on the stromatolites of Shark Bay, Western Australia
(a) 1.9 billion year old stromatolites at Great Slave Lake, Northwest Territories; from Hoffman 1967,32 reprinted with permission from American Association for the Advancement of Science. (b) Elongate nested structures in Spaven Province. (c) Eoentophysalis in stromatolitic chert from the 2.1 billion year old Kasegalik Formation at Belcher Islands, Canada; photo credit H. Hoffman, reprinted with permission from Precambrian Paleobiology Research Group. (d) Entophysalis major from Hamelin Pool. (e) Neoproterozoic stromatolites from the Amadeus Basin, Western Australia exhibiting clotted peloidal structure. Photo credit K. Grey, H.J. Allen, image courtesy of the Geological Survey of Western Australia, Department of Mines and Petroleum, Western Australia©, State of Western Australia717 2015. (f) lamina of clotted peloidal micrite in Hamelin stromatolite; see also Fig. 7f.
