{"id":4172,"date":"2015-12-09T20:49:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T19:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2015-12-09T21:02:53","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T20:02:53","slug":"stromatolites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodhicharya.org\/manyroads\/stromatolites\/","title":{"rendered":"Stromatolites"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/22152511\/IMG_4323.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4173\" src=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/22152511\/IMG_4323-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4323\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/22152511\/IMG_4323-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/22152511\/IMG_4323-650x488.jpg 650w, https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/22152511\/IMG_4323-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/22152511\/IMG_4323-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\">Western Australia has some unique sites:\u00a0 the Pinnacles in Nambung National Park formed from the remains of seashells; a pink lake in the Esperance area brought about by the acccumulation of algae producing the red pigment<i> beta carotene<\/i>; and the stromatolites on the outskirts of Cervantes.<\/h2>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/h2>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"items hfeed\">\n<div class=\"item hentry archaean_period beta_carotene cervantes cervantes_holiday_homes stromatolites open\" style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<div class=\"article hentry archaean_period beta_carotene cervantes cervantes_holiday_homes stromatolites \">\n<div class=\"article-content entry-content\">\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/22152509\/pink-lake.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4175\" src=\"https:\/\/d2wipdjmobk1g8.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/11\/22152509\/pink-lake-300x168.jpeg\" alt=\"pink lake\" width=\"446\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>In the town, all the names of the streets have Spanish\u00a0 connections.\u00a0 My wife and I stayed in a small bed and breakfast that suited us in a street called Malaga.\u00a0 At one end, the road came to a halt and there began miles of white sand and igneous rocks that sparkled in the winter sun.\u00a0 As the sea roared in, it was easy to imagine we were on a desert island in the Indian Ocean.<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"separator\">A five minute drive took us to this peculiar lake containing the stromatolites, one of several to be found in Western Australia.\u00a0 Around the lake are various boardwalks jutting out above the water.\u00a0 The the lake can be circumambulated in about 45 minutes.<\/h2>\n<h2>The stromatolites are a kind of bacterial rock and they all sat in the shallows at the edge.\u00a0 They evolved from rocks during an ancient period called the <i>Archaean <\/i>from about 4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago. Apparently, they were formed at some point during the first billion years of the earth&#8217;s existence. Looking a bit like off-white sponges, if you stare long enough you can see the odd bubble of oxygen emitted rising to the surface of the water.\u00a0 This is the beginning of the process of photosynthesis.<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"separator\">After a geological stretch of time, the cynobacteria proliferated and produced CO2.\u00a0 I put my finger in the water and tasted it.\u00a0 It was so salty I could still taste its salinity hours later.<\/h2>\n<h2>Some of the stromatolites were rather flat and shapeless while others were like large cauliflowers.\u00a0 (The word <i>stromatolites comes from the Greek for <\/i>matress.)<\/h2>\n<h2>There they are, growing in the water as they must have been 2.5 billion years ago when they had become sticky and captured the dust and sand to form a &#8216;rock&#8217; that was alive with bacteria.<\/h2>\n<h2>The only animal we saw was a black swan sitting in the middle of the lake<\/h2>\n<p><a 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