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What are stromatolites?

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A calcareous mound built up of layers of lime-secreting cyanobacteria and trapped sediment, found in Precambrian rocks as the earliest known fossils, and still being formed in lagoons in Australasia.

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layered mounds of calcium carbonate that were deposited by algae during the Precambrian time

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