Lake in British Columbia sheds light on Earth’s early life forms
For years, Pavilion Lake in B.C., Canada has been acknowledged as one of the most morphologically diverse sites for the assortment of freshwater microorganisms by local divers. But for the last seven years, Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) scientists have made it their mission to study and discover the role modern microbialites have had in forming sedimentary rock and determining how some of the same microorganisms that helped create these structures survived the brutal journey to Earth.
