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 ...

IN the distant future the antiquity that this country can ever possess is the history of the occupation by its present holders; its aboriginal people have not furnished any evidence of a past history, ...

It might be somewhat premature for Premier Peter Beattie to start thinking about annexing South Australia, but a new study has revealed it was once part of Queensland. At least until a major ...

THIS treatise is founded on the author's personal experience in South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. In the first-named country he spent many years, from about 1872 to 1886, when he left for ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Geographical Journal has been published since 1831, and was the Society's journal of report until the relaunch in 2000. It has ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The exploration of the coast of Western Australia by English and French explorers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries led to ...

Resources Minister Madeleine King says Australia's geology is a "great gift" and should be used to the country's "best advantage". Labor is set to introduce a production tax credits bill for critical ...

Researchers have uncovered the geological events that created opal. The formation of Australian opal was due to an extraordinary episode of acidic weathering, during the drying out of the central ...

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 ...