I don’t have much time to blog this day/week/month, so here are two stromatolite images from downstream of Grinnell Glacier in Glacier National Park, Montana. This is the same area where I was attacked by a voracious stromatolitic Pac-man, of course.
For more on the geology of GNP, see Filip’s post here.
I had no idea there were stromatolites in GNP! Whoa!
There ARE. And they are amazing and BIG!
Way cool! I’ve never seen any like that before, nor have I ever made it up to GNP. Great reason to go, it looks like.
I was just in Glacier this last September and hiked from Many Glacier to Grinnell. Along the way we came across these very unique formations and had no idea what they were. Mystery solved…
Had I known at the time that these things were capable of swallowing hikers whole, I would have been more careful!
Cool. Last time I was in Glacier there were some very accessible stromatolites right along Going to the Sun Road where the roadcut exposed them.