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  • adjective geology Of or relating to a stromatolite.

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  • Min Chen of the University of Sydney in Australia, and her colleagues, went looking for interesting chlorophyll in the stromatolites there because the water in which they live - and the trapped sediment that bulks them out - filter out much of the visible light reaching the stromatolitic cyanobacteria.

    New Scientist - Online News 2010

  • Min Chen of the University of Sydney in Australia, and her colleagues, went looking for interesting chlorophyll in the stromatolites there because the water in which they live - and the trapped sediment that bulks them out - filter out much of the visible light reaching the stromatolitic cyanobacteria.

    New Scientist - Online News 2010

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  • Citation on chert.

    August 2, 2008