Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent

The forests in drier sites, such as Lake Wangoom, were dominated by eucalypts and some Casuarina (Harle et al.,2002).

• The Moist Tropics
• Southeastern Australia
• The Arid Zone
• The Carpentaria Plain - New Lands
• The Bassian Plain

Sites where pollen has been recovered in cores

• Banda Sea
• Lombok Ridge
• Site GC17, off Western Australia
• ODP820, marine sediment core 45 km off Cairns
• Lynchs Crater, Atherton Tablelands (Kershaw et a., 1993; Moss & Kershaw, 2000)
• Old Lake Coomboo, Fraser Island
• Cuddie Springs, New South Wales
• Lake George
• Lake Wangoom
• Site E55-6
• Wyelangta
• Egg Lagoon
• Lake Selina, Tasmania
• Darwin Crater, Tasmania

Sources & Further reading

1. Mary E. White, The Greening of Gondwana, the 400 Million Year story of Australian Plants, Reed, 1994
2. Chris Johnson, Australia's Mammal Extinctions, a 50,000 year history, Cambridge University Press, 2006