Images of Modern Microbes and Microfossils for Earth's Early Biosphere Lab
Modern microbes
Collection site of modern microbes (hover over images for captions)
Modern filamentous and coccoidal cyanobacteria
Note, these are not the same ones shown in lab but they are similar. (hover over images for captions)
Sample 1. Angmaat Formation, ~1 billion years old, Arctic Canada
Explore this gigapan image of a thin section containing hundreds to thousands of microfossils
Sample 2. Gunflint Iron Formation, 1.88 billion years old, Ontario Canada
Explore this gigapan image of a thin section containing lots of microfossils, though most are too small to see
Thin section image of sample SCHDE-30-A2
Images from three areas at increasing depth taken with 40x objective lens
Sample 3. Gamohaan Formation, 2.52 billion years old, South Africa
Comes from a sample similar to this small domal stromatolite sample (#5a) you saw two weeks ago in lab.