Hamburg Stromatolites

Stromatolites in Hamburg, New Jersey

Around the corner from  The Gingerbread Castle in Hamburg, NJ you’ll find an extraordinary geological formation featuring ancient stromatolite fossils. Nestled in the middle of a mini-mansion community, like precious eggs guarded by a beige mother python, there’s a super-market-sized mound of gray-blue marble covered with pizza-sized psychedelic swirling circular bacteria fossils. I am kind of glad that the formation is obscured inside a community, because it keeps people from destroying it. Having spent most of my life in New Jersey, I’ve seen what Jersey people can do to something precious and irreplaceable.

Hamburg Stromatolites

Hamburg-Stromatolites

Hamburg-Stromatolites

Hamburg Stromatolites