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 ...

Tiny crystals preserved in ancient beach sands are offering scientists a new way to read the deep history of Australia’s landscapes.

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 ...

Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ...

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 ...

A long public service career that began in a very different system. Peter Cook explains why it would not happen now.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FROM its vast size and its peculiar conditions of physical geography the island-continent of Australia presents formidable difficulties alike to the topographical and the geological surveyor. Of its ...

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 ...