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MARMORA HISTORY 1.5 BILLION YEARS AGO

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In November of 2012, Marc Forget, retired from his science and technology research career, gave a lecture at the library on “Stromatolites”, the fossils of the most primitive life form on earth. He reminded his audience that the marbles of the Marmora area are part of an ancient oceanic carbonate shelf dating between 1.3 and 1.5 billion years old, The shallow tidal shoreline of this tropical sea was teaming with the only known life forms in this early period of evolutionary history. They are called “Stomatolites” and they can be found on Marble Point!

Stromatolites in LanArk County, Ontario

Article by Judy Backus