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 ...

The timing and rate of early crustal growth on Earth remains contentious due to the scarcity of very ancient rocks,” are ...

The deposit is estimated to contain around 55 billion metric tonnes of iron ore, making it the largest of its kind ever ...

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 ...

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The undersea mapping of the main search area for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has found small parts of the ocean floor that are harder than the surrounding rock, but the objects detected are unlikely ...

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 ...

Australia's geological agency has published in-depth minerals mapping data that it hopes will drive fresh investment in mining and agriculture across the country's southeast, the agency and resources ...

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 ...