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Australia’s vast Nullarbor Plain hides deep caves that can teach us about alien worlds Original
Stretching over 200,000 square kilometres across southern Australia, the vast, flat plains of the Nullarbor mark one of the world’s largest regions of limestone. It formed when an ancient shallow sea retreated some 14 million years ago. Ultimately, this led to the familiar dry landscape of today, which has acted as a significant barrier for plants, animals, and poorly adapted colonial Victorian-era explorers who described it as “the sort of place one gets into in bad dreams”.
A 'cosmic clock' in tiny crystals reveals the rise and fall of Australia's ancient landscapes
The view from Nature's window in Kalbarri. Credit: SamJeffs1/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Australia's iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of years. But further clues to just how ancient this landscape is come from far beyond Earth: cosmic rays that leave telltale fingerprints inside minerals at Earth's surface.
A ‘cosmic clock’ in tiny crystals has revealed the rise and fall of Australia’s ancient landscapes
Australia’s iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of years. But further clues on just how ancient this landscape is come from far beyond Earth: cosmic rays that leave telltale fingerprints inside minerals at Earth’s surface. In our new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we show how this “cosmic clock” uncovers the evolution of rivers, coasts and habitats.
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