THIS is, strictly speaking, an elementary manual of geology, written and illustrated with especial reference to the geology of Sydney. The general plan of the work is good; the book is well printed ...

New research near Uluru in Australia's arid center shows that rock structures formed deep within the ancient Gondwana supercontinent controlled the rupture pathways of one of Australia's largest ...

Australia has often been unfairly portrayed as an old and idle continent with little geological activity, but new research suggests that we remain geologically active and that some of our mountains ...

Salt is an essential nutrient for the human body. But hundreds of millions of years before the first humans, salt minerals once shaped entire landscapes. They even determined where early life on Earth ...

FOLLOWING the example of Mr. Chapman's Australian fossils—an outline of palaeonto logy based on Australian examples for Australian students—Mr. Howchin, of the University of Adelaide, has prepared a ...

The Blue Mountains lie at Sydney’s doorstep, towards its west, extending about 60 to 180 km from the city. Comprising seven national parks and one Conservation reserve, the Greater Blue Mountains Area ...

Research shows Buchan Caves to be about 3.5 million years old and that Victoria's East Gippsland has remained tectonically active for long times, even into the present-day, which is why residents ...

Seismological and geological studies led by University of Melbourne researchers show the 2016 magnitude 6.0 Petermann earthquake produced a landscape-shifting 21 km surface rupture. The dimensions and ...