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Fig. 4. The Archean Age. (A) Stromatolite field as it may have looked 3.5 BYA (see text for details). (B) Stromatolite fossil; the arrows indicate `carbon films' where microscopic details reveal microbial fossils dating back to the earliest life forms on earth. (From the University of California at Berkeley Paleontological Museum; with permission).





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