Banded Iron Formations (IMAGE)

Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH

Banded Iron Formations

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A Banded Iron-Formation (BIF) with bands of iron-oxide (black) and quartz (white) that were deposited at the seafloor some 2700 million years ago.

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Michael Bau/Jacobs University Bremen

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