25 December 2014
Posted by Callan Bentley
The long hike to Helen Lake (Banff National Park, Alberta) is worth it, not only for the mass wasting and glacial geomorphology, but also for the stromatolites.
Aaron Barth and I hike up there last summer to GigaPan them (GigaPan images in a separate post, here).
Just another day in the office…
As a “Christmas gift,” enjoy these images… some of the loveliest stromatolites I’ve ever seen:
Callan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.
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Marvellous! Still in their colonial aspect, it would appear.
These stromatolites are dead, right?
Yes, for half a billion years and counting…