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's geological agency has published in-depth minerals mapping data that it hopes will drive fresh investment in mining and agriculture across the country's southeast, the agency and resources ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: In Australia, the onset of human occupation (about 65,000 years?) and dispersion across the continent are the subjects of intense debate and are critical to understanding global ...

GEOLOGICAL surveys have been proceeding, to a greater or lesser extent, in all, the Australian colonies for several years, and in Victoria the work has been prosecuted so systematically, and with such ...

Flinders University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Professor Kenton “Ken” Campbell was an internationally respected authority on Australian geology and palaeontology for more ...

Uluru is the most iconic natural landform in Australia — and its formation is an equally special story of creation, destruction and reinvention. The origins of Uluru (and Kata Tjuta) date back about ...

Also known as Columbia, Nuna was a supercontinent that geologists believe existed from approximately 2.5 to 1.5 billion years ago. Now, there's new evidence as to how its various pieces once fit ...

Beneath the dusty plains of outback Queensland, under towns that depend on a single ...

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 ...