The geology of Australia:
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| adam_text | Titel: The geology of Australia
Autor: Johnson, David
Jahr: 2005
Contents Arface . A 1X
_ Acknowledgements xi
Abbreviations and units xii
1 An Australian perspective l
Australia: age, stability, climate, main features 1
Box 1.1 Radiometric dating of rocks 3
Box 1.2 What is geology? 13
Australian geology 14
2 The Earth: a geology primer 19
Model of the Earth 19
Plate tectonics 21
Box 2.1 Age-dating the rocks 22
Minerals 30
Types of rocks 32
Box 2.2 Metamorphism 39
Shaping of the landscape 41
Box 2.3 The Australian regolith and soils 43
Coastal and offshore areas 46
Orogenic cycle 48
Geological time scale 49
3 Building the core of Precambrian rocks 52
The original Earth 52
Archaean 55
Proterozoic 60
Box 3.1 Geology of Uluru and Kata-Tjuta 67
Origin of life 68
Box 3.2 Wilpena Pound and the Ediacaran fauna 71
Supercontinents: Rodinia and Gondwana 73
4 Warm times: tropical corals and arid lands 79
Part of Gondwana 79
Explosive radiation of life 80
Fossils 82
Box 4.1 How are fossils preserved? 86
Warm seas with arid plains, volcanic arcs and deep troughs 88
Late Devonian upheaval 94
Granites 95
Box 4.2 Cooma - granite emplacement and metamorphism
435-433 Ma 96
5 Icehouse: Carboniferous and Permian glaciation 99
A glaciated continent 99
The volcanic arc 106
Development of the coal basins 108
Box 5.1 Glossopteris and the vegetation of the cold-climate
peatlands in Gondwana HO
Box 5.2 Burning mountain: Mount Wingen 113
6 MESOZOIC WARMING: THE GREAT INLAND PLAINS
AND SEAS 118
Warm plains and then seas 118
Box 6.1 The great extinction of life 251 Ma ago 119
The great inland plains 120
Box 6.2 The Sydney Basin 128
Development of inland seas 131
7 Birth of modern Australia: flowering plants,
MAMMALS AND DESERTS 139
Australia emerges 139
Box 7.1 Pollen data from brown coal and other Tertiary deposits 149
The last 15 million years: cooling and growth of the ice-caps 151
Box 7.2 Evidence for climate change 154
Australia s arid interior 155
8 Eastern highlands and volcanoes barely extinct 164
Volcanic provinces 164
Box 8.1 Basalts as a source of gemstones 173
Seamount chain offshore 176
Origins of the volcanics and the Great Divide 177
9 Building the continental shelf and coastlines 182
Origin of the outline lg2
Box 9.1 Australia s Exclusive Economic Zone 186
Sea levels igg
Types of coasts 190
Box 9.2 Tsunamis 194
Box 9.3 Coastal erosion problems 197
The Australian coastline 200
Box 9.4 Comparison of Sydney Harbour and Port Phillip Bay 207
VI
Contents
10 Great Barrier Reef 213
Introduction to reefs 213
Box 10.1 Effects of cyclones on the Great Barrier Reef 214
Reef types 217
Reef deposits 221
Formation of the Great Barrier Reef 223
Box 10.2 Extent of terrigenous sediment in the Great
Barrier Reef 227
Continental slope and trough seaward of the Great Barrier Reef 229
11 Planets, MOONS, METEORITES AND IMPACT CRATERS 232
Earth in context 232
The Sun 232
The planets 233
Earth s Moon 236
Meteorites 240
Impact craters 241
Box 11.1 Large meteorite impacts: Eltanin and Chicxulub 246
Past and future of Earth in the Solar System 248
12 Cycles in a continental journey 252
Global wandering 252
Cycles of deformation 255
Cycles of climates 259
Evolution and extinctions 267
Epilogue - lessons of geological perspective 269
Index 273
Contents
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