Stromatolites - Shark Bay
网页Sometimes microbialites form taller, layered structures called stromatolites. Habitat Sand and seagrass banks comprising Hamelin Pool’s northern boundary make it extremely salty by restricting water flow.
Stromatolites - Shark Bay
网页The microbial mats and stromatolites of Hamelin Pool are among the most diverse in the world and show what marine ecosystems would have looked like three billion years ago. Life in Hamelin Pool is therefore among the reasons for Shark Bay’s World Heritage status.
Shark Bay World Heritage Discovery & Visitor Centre - Stromatolites
网页Shark Bay is one of only two places in the world where living marine stromatolites exist. These ancient structures are examples of what life on Earth was like 3.5 billion years ago and are considered living fossils - the earliest record of life on earth.
Hamelin Pool - Shark Bay
网页The microbial mats and stromatolites of Hamelin Pool are among the most diverse in the world and show what marine ecosystems would have looked like three billion years ago. Life in Hamelin Pool is therefore among the reasons for Shark Bay’s World Heritage status.
Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve - Wikipedia
网页The Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve is a protected marine nature reserve located in the UNESCO World Heritage–listed Shark Bay in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. The 127,000-hectare (310,000-acre) [ 1 ] nature reserve boasts the most diverse and abundant examples of living marine stromatolites in the world, monuments to life on ...
网页A recent field-intensive program in Shark Bay, Western Australia provides new multi-scale perspectives on the world’s most extensive modern stromatolite system. Mapping revealed a unique geographic distribution of morphologically distinct stromatolite structures, many of them previously undocumented.
Hamelin Pool Stromatolites - Australia's Coral Coast
网页A visit to the remarkable Hamelin Pool stromatolites in the Coral Coast is a must when holidaying in the Shark Bay World Heritage Area. Stromatolites are considered 'living fossils', part of the Earth's evolutionary history, and the stromatolites at Hamelin Pool are among the oldest and largest on earth.
Shark Bay World Heritage Discovery & Visitor Centre - Stromatolites …
网页The Stromatolites are located at Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve. A 200 metre boardwalk gives access to the stromatolites’ environment and interpretive signage helps explain all there is to know about these intriguing organisms.
Shark Bay Stromatolites - SEPM Strata
网页Shark Bay Stromatolite Gallery. Holocene Intertidal Stromatolites and other Carbonates of Shark Bay, Western Australia. Photographs of some of the best known intertidal stromatolite heads in the world.
Shark Bay stromatolites at risk from climate change - The …
网页2011年11月25日 · Climate change – resulting in more frequent flooding of the Wooramel River that leads into Shark Bay – may threaten the unique stromatolites that make Shark Bay a World Heritage site.