Three Continents Collide to Create Australia

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A magnetotelluric instrument in central Australia. University of Adelaide
A magnetotelluric instrument in central Australia. University of Adelaide

A PhD student in the University of Adelaide’s School of Earth and Environmental Sciences has found evidence of a collision between northern and central Australia 1.64 billion years ago. Kate Selway says that two billion years ago, the Australia we know today existed only in bits.


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