Banded Iron Formation (IMAGE)

University of Alberta

Banded Iron Formation

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Banded iron formations, such as this one pictured in Western Australia, precipitated out of the Earth's early oceans billions of years ago, and are providing new clues to the evolution of ancient seawater and the microbes that inhabited it.

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Tom Price

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