Most modern and ancient stromatolites occur in carbonate sediments and sedimentary rocks, but they can form by trapping and binding of any sediment particles.
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Stromatolite
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Afrikaans
1 entries- stromatoliet noun (rock-like structure built by microorganisms)
Arabic
1 entries- سْتْرُومَاتُولِيت noun (rock-like structure built by microorganisms)
Bulgarian
1 entries- строматоли́т noun (rock-like structure built by microorganisms)
Catalan
1 entries- estromatòlit noun (rock-like structure built by microorganisms)
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Finnish
1 entries- stromatoliitti noun (rock-like structure built by microorganisms)
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Hungarian
1 entries- sztromatolit noun (rock-like structure built by microorganisms)
Italian
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Occitan
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2003, David M. Paterson, Rebecca J. Aspden, R. Pamela Reid, Biodynamics of Modern Marine Stromatolites, Andrew H. Knoll, Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth, page 44, Stromatolites are the predominant features of carbonate rocks formed in Precambrian oceans.
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The formation of modern stromatolites is highly dependent on sediment accretion rates and their associated microbial assemblages that trap and bind sediment particles that fall on the surface of the structures.
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