Wednesday, June 18, 7pm, doors at 6:30pm

Screening Last Things by Deborah Stratman with a presentation to follow by geologist Claire Marshall, at Stray Cat Film Center , as part of our Rock Show programming.

This event is free and is generously funded by Science on Screen.

The Screening: Stones are its anchor. To touch stone is to meet alien duration. We trust stone as archive, but we may as well write on water. In the end, it’s particles that remain. More info on the film here.
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The Talk: “The search for the evidence of the earliest life on Earth, a cautionary tale”. Microstructures in the 3.5 Ga Apex Chert Formation were initially described as the oldest bacterial fossils on Earth over 30 years ago. We suggest that although the microstuctures analysed are not microfossils, the presence of carbonaceous material in the surrounding matrix is consistent with the existence of microbial life at this time, and with evidence of early Archaean life.