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Project Acronym: GOE-DEEP | State: In Operation| Expedition ID: 5075

ins.: 2025-08-28 13:12, 68 days ago
Category: Goe-Deep
Goe-Deep

2025-08-24

Black shales
Pyrite aggregates in black shales of the FB2b member in the Okondja Subbasin. Photo: Aivo Lepland.

The black shales of the FB2b interval in the Lebaye hole, located at a depth of 50-60 meters, contain morphologically diverse, multigenerational pyrite aggregates that reach sizes of several centimetres. Could some of these aggregates have originated from the earliest known colonial organisms, as previous studies on aggregates from the corresponding interval in the Franceville Subbasin have suggested?