Happy #FossilFriday!🦘🦴🐀
Today we’re traveling to Barrow Island (NW 🇦🇺), home to both extant mammals and their Plio-Pleistocene fossil relatives.

📸 Pictured here are @palaeontolucy.bsky.social and Dr. Travouillon documenting one of the island’s ex-cave deposits.
#AustralianFossils #AustralianGeology

#FossilFriday from these Tumbiana Formation stromatolites (~2.7 billion years old)!

Stromatolites have a distinct layered structure formed by microbial mats and sediment🦠

Found by Emeritus Professor Zheng-Xiang Li, Curtin University

#Stromatolites #ArcheanEra #AustralianFossils #AustralianGeology

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A geologist's paradise

Glasshouse Rocks stand near Narooma, Australia, remnants of 500m-year-old tectonic plate movements.

#AustralianGeology #GlasshouseRocks #SurfBeachLandmarks

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