Hamersley Gorge with its picturesque Spa Pool in Karijini National Park in northwest Australia opens a window into the beginning of Earth, into a time when bacteria were the only inhabitants on our young planet. These colorful layers of rock are banded iron ores that...
The banded iron ores of the Hamersley Gorge in Karijini National Park of northwestern Australia date back to the archaic epoch of our planet. About 2500 million years ago, these layered banded iron sediments were deposited at the bottom of a shallow sea. Bacteria...
The Pinnacles of Nambung in Western Australia tower beneath the majestic arc of the bright Southern Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds, two irregular dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way galaxy. It is not difficult to imagine that this image could well have been...
Hardy Reef in the Great Barrier Reef it a heart-shaped mini atoll located about 100 km (60 mi) off the coast of Queensland and the Whitsunday Islands in northeastern Australia. The Great Barrier Reef stretches along the Australian continental shelf in the Coral Sea...
The colorful pebbles on the west coast of New Zealand’s South Island are well rounded by the surf. They mirror the geological processes that created the glaciated peaks of the Southern Alps 25 million years ago. However, the adventurous geological past of these...
