Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

The history of Australia starts at the beginning of the history of the Earth. The earliest known blocks of crust on Earth are the seeds around which the Australian continent grew. The Earth is believed to have formed about 4550 million years ago, and only a short time later the dated rocks of the beginnings of Australia solidified.

The recently released ABC documentary Australia: The time traveller's guide: A natural history of the Australian Continent, though having no connection with my site, and being released a number of years after I uploaded the page Take a Journey Back Through Time to this site, illustrates many of the significant stages in the formation of Australia and the evolution of life covered on the relevant page on my site, starting the journey at the oldest rocks in Australia, that are the oldest dated rocks in the world, and continuing to the present.

The Aboriginal Australia section of this site is now available as an ebook and a print-on-demand soft cover book, A biography of the Australian Continent  Aboriginal Australia: a Students Guide.

The information will continue to be available on this site free of charge and any additions will be continue to be added.

The book Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe has a lot of instances of Aboriginal agriculture gathered from the journals of early explorers and others in the early days of European settlement in Australia.

    References

Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system

Climate models agree things will get bad. Capturing just how bad is tricky

Possible Climate Transitions Resulting from Stratocumulus Deck Breakup Under Greenhouse Warming

Darwin

https://librariestas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/all/search/results?qu=Philip&qu=J&qu=Tattersall&rw=12&isd=true

New discoveries place Ediacaran fauna on land

A proposed impact structure in central Australia that could be the biggest ever, the proposed bolide is estimated to have had a diameter of  30 miles - MAPCIS

PLoS - Public Library of Science - A non-profit publisher of peer-reviewed scientific papers that are free to read and download https://librariestas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/all/search/results?qu=Philip&qu=J&qu=Tattersall&rw=12&isd=true

Climate Code Red

A Farewell to Ice, Peter Wadhams, Penguin Books

A new study of what lies beneath East Antarctica that has not been published has important unexpected implications for the stability of the East Antarctic Ice sheet.

Wherever ages are given in years before present, BP, the present referred to is conventionally set to 1950.

Climate Change: An Information Statement of the American Meteorological Society

Indigenous knowledge combines with Western science to look after country

Cultivating climate justice: Green infrastructure and suburban disadvantage in Australia

Who Ate the Green Plate?

Links

1. Australian Age of  Dinosaurs
2. Australian Age of Dinosaur Online Shop
3. The Age of Fishes Museum, Canowindra, New South Wales
4. The Berndt Museum of Anthropology
5. RealClimate: Climate Science from Climate Scientists
6. Quinkan & Regional Cultural Centre
7. A science learning website for kids
8. How Aboriginal Australians Made Australia
9. The Thylacine Museum - Introducing the Thylacine What is a Thylacine (page 1)

10. It's Official: There's Nothing We Can Do Now to Stop Arctic Temperature Rise