Atlas Obscura
Thrombolite Walking Trail in Flowers Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador
The tiny town of Flower’s Cove on Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula is one of only two places in the world where the fossilized remains of some of the Earth’s oldest and most primitive life forms can be found. Lining the shoreline of this tiny saltwater Cove are thrombolites — gray, bun-shaped rock formations estimated to be 650-million-years-old. Their name means “clotted structure.” Thr…