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104 relations: Adelaide Rift Complex, Aeolian processes, Amadeus Basin, Amphibolite, Antarctica, Archean, Australia, Baragwanathia, Bowen Basin, Bungle Bungle Range, Cattamarra Coal Measures, Centralian Superbasin, Clarence Moreton Basin, Clermont, Queensland, Columbia (supercontinent), Continent, Continental crust, Craton, Cretaceous, Devonian, Dry lake, Eurasia, Exmouth Gulf, Flinders Ranges, Fluvial, Flysch, Gascoyne Complex, Gawler Craton, Gelisol, Geography of Sydney, Geology of Tasmania, Geology of the Australian Capital Territory, Geology of Victoria, Geraldton, Glass House Mountains, Gneiss, Gondwana, Granite, Granulite, Great Sandy Desert, Half-graben, Himalayas, History of Earth, Hunter River (New South Wales), Hunter-Bowen orogeny, Ice age, Indo-Australian Plate, Indonesia, Jurassic, Kalbarri, Western Australia, ..., Lachlan Fold Belt, Lake Tanganyika, Laterite, List of rock types, Lithosphere, Maar, Mackay, Queensland, Mesoproterozoic, Mining in Australia, Molasse, Mount Isa, Murchison River (Western Australia), Musgrave Block, Narryer Gneiss Terrane, Neoproterozoic, Nepidae, New Guinea, New Zealand, Newer Volcanics Province, Officer Basin, Ordovician, Orogeny, Paleozoic, Pangaea, Permian, Perth Basin, Petermann Orogeny, Petermann Ranges (Australia), Petroleum, Phanerozoic, Pilbara Craton, Proterozoic, Queensland, Regolith, Rodinia, Saprolite, Sediment basin, Sedimentary basin, Serpentinite, Sierras de Córdoba, Silurian, Slate, South America, South Australia, Supercontinent, Surat Basin, Swan Coastal Plain, Sydney Basin, Tertiary, Triassic, Victoria (Australia), Whitsunday Islands, Year, Yilgarn Craton. Expand index (54 more) »
Adelaide Rift Complex
The Adelaide Rift Complex (also known as Adelaide Geosyncline) is a major geological province in central South Australia.
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Aeolian processes
Aeolian processes, also spelled eolian or æolian, pertain to wind activity in the study of geology and weather and specifically to the wind's ability to shape the surface of the Earth (or other planets).
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Amadeus Basin
The Amadeus Basin is a large (ca. 170,000 km²) intracratonic sedimentary basin in central Australia, lying mostly within the southern Northern Territory, but extending into the state of Western Australia.
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Amphibolite
Amphibolid is a metamorphic rock that contains amphibole, especially the species hornblende and actinolite, as well as plagioclase.
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Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent.
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Archean
The Archean Eon (also spelled Archaean or Archæan) is one of the four geologic eons of Earth history, occurring (4 to 2.5 billion years ago).
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Baragwanathia
Baragwanathia is a genus of extinct plants of the division Lycopodiophyta of Late Silurian to Early Devonian age, fossils of which have been found in Australia, Canada, China and Czechia.
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Bowen Basin
The Bowen Basin contains the largest coal reserves in Australia.
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Bungle Bungle Range
The Bungle Bungle Range is the landform that is the major component of the Purnululu National Park situated in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
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Cattamarra Coal Measures
The Cattamarra Coal Measures is a Jurassic fossil locality on Western Australia.
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Centralian Superbasin
The Centralian Superbasin is a large intracratonic sedimentary basin which occupied a large area of central, southern and western Australia during much of the Neoproterozoic Era (~830–540 Ma).
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Clarence Moreton Basin
The Clarence Moreton Basin is a Mesozoic sedimentary basin on the easternmost part of the Australian continent.
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Clermont, Queensland
Clermont is an agricultural town and locality in the Isaac Region, Queensland, Australia.
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Columbia (supercontinent)
Columbia, also known as Nuna and Hudsonland, was one of Earth's ancient supercontinents.
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Continent
A continent is one of several very large landmasses of the world.
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Continental crust
Continental crust is the layer of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks that forms the continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores, known as continental shelves.
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Craton
A craton (or; from κράτος kratos "strength") is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere, where the lithosphere consists of the Earth's two topmost layers, the crust and the uppermost mantle.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.
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Devonian
The Devonian is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic, spanning 60 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya.
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Dry lake
A dry lake is either a basin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappeared when evaporation processes exceeded recharge.
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Eurasia
Eurasia is a combined continental landmass of Europe and Asia.
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Exmouth Gulf
Exmouth Gulf is a gulf in the north-west of Western Australia.
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Flinders Ranges
The Flinders Ranges are the largest mountain range in South Australia, which starts about north of Adelaide.
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Fluvial
In geography and geology, fluvial processes are associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by them.
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Flysch
Flysch is a sequence of sedimentary rock layers that progress from deep-water and turbidity flow deposits to shallow-water shales and sandstones.
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Gascoyne Complex
The Gascoyne Complex is a terrane of Proterozoic granite and metamorphic rock in the central-western part of Western Australia.
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Gawler Craton
The Gawler Craton covers approximately 440,000 square kilometres of central South Australia.
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Gelisol
Gelisols are an order in USDA soil taxonomy.
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Geography of Sydney
The geography of Sydney is characterised by its coastal location on a basin bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Blue Mountains to the west, the Hawkesbury River to the north and the Woronora Plateau to the south.
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Geology of Tasmania
The geology of Tasmania is complex, with the world's biggest exposure of diabase, or dolerite.
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Geology of the Australian Capital Territory
The geology of the Australian Capital Territory includes rocks dating from the Ordovician around 480 million years ago, whilst most rocks are from the Silurian.
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Geology of Victoria
Victoria is an Australian state, situated at the southern end of the Great Dividing Range.
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Geraldton
Geraldton is a coastal city in the Mid West region of Western Australia, north of Perth.
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Glass House Mountains
The Glass House Mountains are a group of thirteen hills that rise abruptly from the coastal plain on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia.
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Gneiss
Gneiss is a common distributed type of rock formed by high-grade regional metamorphic processes from pre-existing formations that were originally either igneous or sedimentary rocks.
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Gondwana
Gondwana, or Gondwanaland, was a supercontinent that existed from the Neoproterozoic (about 550 million years ago) until the Carboniferous (about 320 million years ago).
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Granite
Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock that is granular and phaneritic in texture.
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Granulite
Granulites are a class of high-grade metamorphic rocks of the granulite facies that have experienced high-temperature and moderate-pressure metamorphism.
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Great Sandy Desert
The Great Sandy Desert is an interim Australian bioregion, data located in the North West of Western Australia straddling the Pilbara and southern Kimberley regions.
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Half-graben
A half-graben is a geological structure bounded by a fault along one side of its boundaries, unlike a full graben where a depressed block of land is bordered by parallel faults.
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Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
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History of Earth
The history of Earth concerns the development of planet Earth from its formation to the present day.
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Hunter River (New South Wales)
The Hunter River is a major river in New South Wales, Australia.
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Hunter-Bowen orogeny
The Hunter-Bowen Orogeny was a significant arc accretion event in the Permian and Triassic periods affecting approximately 2,500 km of the Australian continental margin.
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Ice age
An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.
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Indo-Australian Plate
The Indo-Australian Plate is a major tectonic plate that includes the continent of Australia and surrounding ocean, and extends northwest to include the Indian subcontinent and adjacent waters.
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Indonesia
Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.
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Kalbarri, Western Australia
Kalbarri is a coastal town in the Mid West region located 592 km north of Perth, Western Australia.
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Lachlan Fold Belt
The Lachlan Fold Belt (LFB) or Lachlan Orogen is a geological subdivision of the east part of Australia.
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Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake.
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Laterite
Laterite is a soil and rock type rich in iron and aluminium, and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas.
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List of rock types
The following is a list of rock types recognized by petrologists.
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Lithosphere
A lithosphere (λίθος for "rocky", and σφαίρα for "sphere") is the rigid, outermost shell of a terrestrial-type planet, or natural satellite, that is defined by its rigid mechanical properties.
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Maar
A maar is a broad, low-relief volcanic crater caused by a phreatomagmatic eruption (an explosion which occurs when groundwater comes into contact with hot lava or magma).
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Mackay, Queensland
Mackay is a city and its centre suburb in the Mackay Region on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia.
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Mesoproterozoic
The Mesoproterozoic Era is a geologic era that occurred from.
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Mining in Australia
Mining in Australia is a significant primary industry and contributor to the Australian economy.
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Molasse
The term "molasse" refers to sandstones, shales and conglomerates that form as terrestrial or shallow marine deposits in front of rising mountain chains.
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Mount Isa
Mount Isa is a city in the Gulf Country region of Queensland, Australia.
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Murchison River (Western Australia)
The Murchison River is the second longest river in Western Australia.
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Musgrave Block
The Musgrave Block (also known as the Musgrave Province) is an east-west trending belt of Proterozoic granulite-gneiss basement rocks approximately long.
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Narryer Gneiss Terrane
The Narryer Gneiss Terrane is a geological complex in Western Australia that is composed of a tectonically interleaved and polydeformed mixture of granite, mafic intrusions and metasedimentary rocks in excess of 3.3 billion years old, with the majority of the Narryer Gneiss Terrane in excess of 3.6 billion years old.
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Neoproterozoic
The Neoproterozoic Era is the unit of geologic time from.
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Nepidae
Nepidae is a family of exclusively aquatic Heteropteran insects in the order Hemiptera.
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New Guinea
New Guinea (Nugini or, more commonly known, Papua, historically, Irian) is a large island off the continent of Australia.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is a sovereign island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Newer Volcanics Province
The Newer Volcanics Province is a complex of volcanic centres formed by the East Australia hotspot across south-eastern Australia.
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Officer Basin
The Officer Basin is a large (ca. 410,000 km²) intracratonic sedimentary basin in Australia, lying across the states of South Australia and Western Australia.
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Ordovician
The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.
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Orogeny
An orogeny is an event that leads to a large structural deformation of the Earth's lithosphere (crust and uppermost mantle) due to the interaction between plate tectonics.
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Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era (from the Greek palaios (παλαιός), "old" and zoe (ζωή), "life", meaning "ancient life") is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
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Pangaea
Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
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Permian
The Permian is a geologic period and system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic period 251.902 Mya.
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Perth Basin
The Perth Basin is a thick, elongated sedimentary basin in Western Australia.
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Petermann Orogeny
The Petermann Orogeny was an Australian intracontinental event that affected basement rocks of the northern Musgrave Province and Ediacaran (Proterozoic) sediments of the (now) southern Amadeus Basin between ~550-535 Ma.
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Petermann Ranges (Australia)
The Petermann Ranges are a mountain range in central Australia.
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Petroleum
Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.
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Phanerozoic
The Phanerozoic Eon is the current geologic eon in the geologic time scale, and the one during which abundant animal and plant life has existed.
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Pilbara Craton
The Pilbara Craton is an old and stable part of the continental lithosphere located in Pilbara, Western Australia.
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Proterozoic
The Proterozoic is a geological eon representing the time just before the proliferation of complex life on Earth.
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Queensland
Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Regolith
Regolith is a layer of loose, heterogeneous superficial deposits covering solid rock.
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Rodinia
Rodinia (from the Russian родить, rodít, meaning "to beget, to give birth", or родина, ródina, meaning "motherland, birthplace") is a Neoproterozoic supercontinent that was assembled 1.3–0.9 billion years ago and broke up 750–633 million years ago.
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Saprolite
Saprolite is a chemically weathered rock.
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Sediment basin
A sediment basin is a temporary pond built on a construction site to capture eroded or disturbed soil that is washed off during rain storms, and protect the water quality of a nearby stream, river, lake, or bay.
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Sedimentary basin
Sedimentary basins are regions of Earth of long-term subsidence creating accommodation space for infilling by sediments.
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Serpentinite
Serpentinite is a rock composed of one or more serpentine group minerals, the name originating from the similarity of the texture of the rock to that of the skin of a snake.
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Sierras de Córdoba
The Sierras de Córdoba is a mountain range in central Argentina, located between the Pampas to the east and south, the Chaco to the north and the foothills of the Andes to the west.
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Silurian
The Silurian is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya.
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Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.
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South America
South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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South Australia
South Australia (abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia.
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Supercontinent
In geology, a supercontinent is the assembly of most or all of Earth's continental blocks or cratons to form a single large landmass.
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Surat Basin
The Surat Basin is a geological basin in eastern Australia.
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Swan Coastal Plain
The Swan Coastal Plain in Western Australia is the geographic feature which contains the Swan River as it travels west to the Indian Ocean.
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Sydney Basin
The Sydney Basin is an interim Australian bioregion and is both a structural entity and a depositional area, now preserved on the east coast of New South Wales, Australia and with some of its eastern side now subsided beneath the Tasman Sea.
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Tertiary
Tertiary is the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago, a timespan that occurs between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary.
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Triassic
The Triassic is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period Mya.
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Victoria (Australia)
Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.
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Whitsunday Islands
The Whitsunday Islands is a collection of continental islands of various sizes off the central coast of Queensland, Australia, approximately north of Brisbane.
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Year
A year is the orbital period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun.
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Yilgarn Craton
The Yilgarn Craton is a large craton that constitutes the bulk of the Western Australian land mass.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Australia
