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Mt Augustus, in Western Australia, is an inselberg, but not a monolith. (Flickr: Robyn Jay)"It is probably not as striking because it's not as steep-sided as Uluru," Dr Buckman says.
Etched onto rocks on a remote peninsula in Western Australia are millions of images drawn tens of thousands of years ago by the country’s original inhabitants, including the earliest known ...
Australia’s billion-year-old rocks are leading Mars life hunt. There’s something unique about Western Australia’s Pilbara region when it comes to exploring life’s signatures.
The 3.5-billion-year-old rocks from the Pilbara also contained nanoparticles of fluorapatite (a mineral made of oxygen, calcium, fluorine and phosphorus). The 3.5-billion-year-old jaspilite rock from ...
A University of Western Australia study shows clear evidence of the effect of industrial emissions on 40,000-year-old rock art. The earliest Murujuga rock art dates back 40,000 years. Price Database.
Etched onto rocks on a remote peninsula in Western Australia are millions of images drawn tens of thousands of years ago by the country’s original inhabitants, including the earliest known ...