Sunday, 1 May 2016

Geology of the 'Big Scrub Rainforest' (Part 1)

Later this year it is intended that the

Big Scrub Landcare

group and many other contributors will release a book on people's connection with the

'Big Scrub'

. It will be a multi-faceted book that introduces the emotional connection that people can have with a lovely part of the world.... See more

Saturday, 7 May 2016

Geology of the 'Big Scrub Rainforest' (Part 2)

The story of the 'Big Scrub' s preserved in the rock unit known as the Neranleigh-Fernvale Beds. The first post in this series is about this rock, the foundations of the region. This post deals with the period of big sedimentary basins which corresponds with the age of the... See more

Geology of the Big Scrub Rainforest (Part 3)

Gondwana

The late Jurassic and

Cretaceous marks a very important geological time. It is the time that the huge

supercontinent of Pangea broke up. This when Gondwana became its own continent

with present day Australia and Antarctica being a large part of a new smaller,

but still impressive super-continent. Our... See more

After years of patient work around the globe, volcanologists and climate modelers are now sure: in the years 536 and 539/540, there occurred at least two volcanic eruptions of almost unprecedented magnitude. The first of them may have been somewhere in the tropics, although the location has not yet been pinned down conclusively. The second was at

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A medida que la lluvia bañaba esas nuevas montañas de estilo himalayo, las rocas se erosionaban hasta convertirse en sus componentes elementales, que luego fluían río abajo, llenando los mares con una explosión de nutrientes que alimentaba un estallido de vida. Cada nueva generación ofrecía la oportunidad de una mutación innovadora que... See more