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    The Gunflint chert (1.88 Ga) is a sequence of banded iron formation rocks that are exposed in the Gunflint Range of northern Minnesota and northwestern...
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    2021. Gunflint chert Archived 2005-06-12 at the Wayback Machine Biogenicity of Microfossils in the Apex Chert "Portion Of Ancient Australian Chert Microstructures...
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    Stromatolite structures are evident within the Gunflint Iron Formation. The cherts of the Gunflint (the Gunflint Chert) are noted for containing Precambrian microfossils...
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  • oxygen-using organisms. It is also one of the most common fossils in the Gunflint chert. Palmer, Douglas; et al. (2009). Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual...
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    million years ago. The Gunflint Range consists of a basal conglomerate, then the Gunflint Iron formation and the Gunflint Chert with the Rove Formation...
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    Flint (redirect from Gunflint)
    cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as the variety of chert that occurs in chalk or marly limestone. Historically, flint was widely...
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    microfossils reveals differential heterotrophic consumption in the ~1.9-Ga Gunflint chert PNAS 110 (20) 8020-8024 doi:10.1073/pnas.1221965110 Raiswell, R. (1997)...
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    Ancient microfossils have been found in the banded iron formations of the Gunflint Chert. The Boundary Waters area is near the border of the true boreal forest...
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  • microorganism. Kakabekia umbellata was first found in the 1.88 billion year old Gunflint Chert, and in 1966, a living member of the genus, Kakabekia barghoorniana...
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    million years old, Diskagma was larger than coeval marine microbes of the Gunflint Chert, and more complex than stromatolites. Retallack, G.J.; Krull, E.S.;...
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