Comment on Discussion Thread 🐞 Sunday 25 May 2025
Ooooooo I like the rocks!!!
Those are thrombolites! Ancient bacterial (?) colonies that are still alive, they turn the air and stuff into calcium deposits
Stromatolites? Yeah, relics of the first life on earth. Or are thrombolites different from stromatolites? Never heard of thrombolites.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrombolite
TIL
OMG THATS SO COOL!!!
DOWN A RABBIT HOLE I GO!
From the rabbit hole…
Both structures are created by cyanobacteria.
The name “cyanobacteria” (from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos) ‘blue’) refers to their bluish green (cyan) color,[5][6] which forms the basis of cyanobacteria’s informal common name, blue-green algae.[7][8][9][note 2]
Common blue-green algae has magic properties!
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Those are thrombolites! Ancient bacterial (?) colonies that are still alive, they turn the air and stuff into calcium deposits
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Stromatolites? Yeah, relics of the first life on earth. Or are thrombolites different from stromatolites? Never heard of thrombolites.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 year ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrombolite
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 year ago
TIL
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 year ago
OMG THATS SO COOL!!!
DOWN A RABBIT HOLE I GO!
sqgl@beehaw.org 1 year ago
From the rabbit hole…
Both structures are created by cyanobacteria.
The name “cyanobacteria” (from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos) ‘blue’) refers to their bluish green (cyan) color,[5][6] which forms the basis of cyanobacteria’s informal common name, blue-green algae.[7][8][9][note 2]
Common blue-green algae has magic properties!