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
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.
Indigenous knowledge combines with Western science to look after
country
Links
- Australian Age of
Dinosaurs
- Australian Age of Dinosaur
Online Shop
- The Age of
Fishes Museum, Canowindra, New South Wales
-
The Berndt Museum of Anthropology
-
RealClimate:
Climate Science from Climate Scientists
-
Quinkan &
Regional Cultural Centre
-
A science
learning website for
kids
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How Aboriginal
Australians Made Australia
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The
Thylacine Museum - Introducing the Thylacine What is a Thylacine
(page 1)
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