[Rockhounds] Scientists discover unknown prehistoric world — on Earth

[Glen Miller]

Hmmm. I'll have to find my book on a Patagonia paleontological expedition
over several years in 1937+
to see if there is any mention of this.

Glen Miller

On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 6:27 PM Kreigh Tomaszewski <kreigh at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the profoundly remote Argentina desert, at over 12,000 feet high, and in
> a place where no roads go, scientists found an exotic world new to science.
>
> Among white salt plains atop the Puna de Atacama plateau, there's a system
> of greenish lagoons harboring vast bacterial communities, called
> stromatolites, that create layered mounds as they expand. The unique
> ecosystem might be a glimpse into Earth
> <https://mashable.com/article/earth-pictures-images-from-space>, billions
> of years ago, when primitive organisms first appeared on our planet.
>
> "This lagoon could be one of the best modern examples of the earliest signs
> of life on Earth," geologist Brian Hynek, one of the scientists who found
> this elusive ecosystem, said in a statement
> <
> https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/12/06/deep-within-inhospitable-desert-window-first-life-earth
> >.
> "It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen or, really, like anything any
> scientist has ever seen."
>
> "It’s just amazing that you can still find undocumented things like that on
> our planet," Hynek, a professor at CU Boulder, marveled.
>
> https://mashable.com/article/earth-unique-alien-life
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