rare
kona dolomite
fossil microbe mats · older than almost anything


The tell
Pink, cream and gray swirled together, often with clear layered or domed structures running through it.
Those structures are stromatolites: mats of cyanobacteria, and among the oldest visible fossils on earth. The same kind of microbe that put the oxygen in the air, though the mats that did that job came earlier than these. The Kona Hills themselves are private land; look for float on the Marquette shore.
What it gets mistaken for
The facts
- also calledfossil microbe mats · the kind that oxygenated the air
- age~2.3 to 2.2 billion yrs
- where it turns upMarquette Co. · rock shops & club digs
- the field markpink with wavy dark mats · fizzes only when scratched
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