The banded iron ores of Hamersley Gorge in Karijini National Park in 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 played a...
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. It is not difficult to imagine that this image could well have been taken on a...
Hardy Reef in the Great Barrier Reef is 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...