The geological and human histories of Antarctica and Gondwanaland are intimately linked. East Antarctica was at the heart of Gondwanaland when it began to form over 600 million years ago…
In real time, it was geologically slow. But now we can enjoy the breakup of Gondwanaland as a moment’s internet entertainment on computer-generated imagery: 200 million years or so, in 60 seconds…
Geological histories of Australia have many points of origin. Geologists might situate their accounts of formation in the three and a half billion-year-old Pilbara Craton, some of the oldest rocks on the surface of the Earth…