The Rock That Built Civilization: Banded Iron Formations

What a banded iron formation actually is, how the stripes formed, and the hydrothermal-vs-biological debate — and why over half the iron we mine today comes from these 3-billion-year-old seafloors.

Playlist by @banded_iron_earth

12 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Episode 2 - Banded Iron Formations — Early Earth
2. EP#8 Banded Iron Formations — Dr Col Harrison
3. Banded Iron Formation Origin Debate - Hydrothermal vs Biological — Interesting Geology
4. Modern Life Depends on This Extinct Rock | Banded Iron Formations — Alexis Dahl
5. Banded Iron Formations of Michigan's Upper Peninsula — Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't
6. Answering All Your Banded Iron Formation Questions | Deep Dive with Dr. Josh Davies — GEO GIRL
7. Banded Iron Formations (BIFs) — Earth Science Classroom
8. An Ancient Iron World | University Place — PBS Wisconsin
9. Banded Iron Formations from Sedimentary Rock | Waldorf Mineralogy — Pepper and Pine
10. Precambrian iron banded formations — Arctic geology
11. BIF - Banded Iron Formation | Economic Geology | The Earth Post | Prasun Dutta — The Earth Post
12. 1.9 Iron Formations — Julian Buss