David Attenborough began his extraordinary tv series, The Living Planet at Shark Bay in AustraliaΒs northwest, because crossing the low dunes and descending to the beach is like slipping billions of years back in time. Where the waves gently break on the shore are stromatolites, rising like rows of
Stromatolites
β Scribed by M.R. Walter (Eds.)
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science Ltd
- Year
- 1976
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 791
- Series
- Developments in Sedimentology 20
- Category
- Library
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