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Lenty Road, Barberton, Ohio.

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This is 3.2 billion year old sandstone from the Kapvaal craton in South Africa. It was deposited by rivers on the coast of one of the first continents when the world was so different it might as well have been an alien planet. The black wiggly lines and layers are alleged to be microbial mats living on the ancient beach. In a few months I will be going to South Africa to collect my own samples so that I can try to figure out if these really are microbial fossils and some of the earliest evidence of life on earth. Not only that, we will then use that data to help a robot on Mars look for cool martian sedimentary rocks, and maybe some martian fossils. But that's a long way off.

10/19/2021

Art by Mary Sibande

Barberton -Birding in the splendour of Mountainlands Nature Reserve -World Heritage Site. A glimpse oft the marvelous enjoyable day we had in this magnificent Nature Reserve. Besides beautiful scenery, see Crowned Eagle in distance calling, Hear Red Winged starlings as they chase Spotted Eagle Owl with picture of Owl in his tree of refuse etc