The geology of Australia:
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| adam_text | Titel: The geology of Australia
Autor: Johnson, David
Jahr: 2009
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgements x
Abbreviations and units xii
1 An Australian perspective 1
Australia: age, stability, climate, main features 1
Box 1.1 Radiometric dating of rocks 5
Box 1.2 What is geology? 15
Australian geology 16
2 The Earth: A geology primer 21
Model of the Earth 21
Plate tectonics 24
Box 2.1 Age-dating the rocks 26
Minerals 33
Types of rocks 37
Box 2.2 Two types of volcanoes 38
Box 2.3 Metamorphism 48
Shaping of the landscape 49
Box 2.4 The Australian regolith and soils 51
Box 2.5 Caves 53
Coastal and offshore areas 57
Orogenic cycle 58
Geological time scale 59
3 Building the core of Precambrian rocks 63
The original Earth 63
Archaean 67
Proterozoic 72
Box 3.1 Geology of Uluru and Kata-Tjuta 78
Origin of life 80
Box 3.2 Wilpena Pound and the Ediacaran fauna 83
Supercontinents: Rodinia and Gondwana 84
4 Warm times: Tropical corals and arid lands 89
Part of Gondwana 89
Explosive radiation of life 90
Warm seas with arid plains, volcanic arcs and deep troughs 93
Granites 100
Box 4.1 Cooma - granite emplacement and metamorphism 435-433 Ma ago 101
5 Icehouse: Carboniferous and Permian glaciation 105
A glaciated continent 105
The volcanic arc 113
Development of the coal basins 114
Box 5.1 Glossopteris and the vegetation of the cold-climate peatlands in Gondwana 117
Box 5.2 Burning mountain: Mt Wingen 121
6 Mesozoic warming: The great inland plains and seas 123
Warm plains and then seas 123
Box 6.1 The great extinction of life 251 Ma ago 125
The great inland plains 126
Box 6.2 The Sydney Basin 134
Development of inland seas 136
7 Birth of modern Australia: Flowering plants, mammals and deserts 145
Australia emerges 145
Box 7.1 Pollen data from brown coal and other Tertiary deposits 156
The last 15 million years: cooling and growth of the ice-caps 157
Australia s arid interior 160
8 The history and evolution of life on Earth 167
Fossils 167
Box 8.1 How are fossils preserved? 174
History and evolution of life on earth 184
9 Eastern highlands and volcanoes barely extinct 189
Volcanic provinces 189
Box 9.1 Basalts as a source of gemstones 199
Seamount chain offshore 201
Origins of the volcanics and the Great Divide 202
10 Building the continental shelf and coastlines 207
Origin of the outline 207
Box 10.1 Australia s Exclusive Economic Zone 212
Sea levels 213
Types of coasts 215
Box 10.2 Tsunamis 220
Box 10.3 Coastal erosion problems 223
The Australian coastline 225
Box 10.4 Comparison of Sydney Harbour and Port Phillip Bay 232
11 Great Barrier Reef 237
Introduction to reefs 237
Box 11.1 Effects of cyclones on the Great Barrier Reef 239
Reef types 241
vi CONTENTS
Reef deposits 245
Formation of the Great Barrier Reef 246
Box 11.2 Extent of terrigenous sediment in the Great Barrier Reef 251
Continental slope and trough seaward of the Great Barrier Reef 253
12 Planets, moons, meteorites and impact craters 255
Earth in context 255
Meteorites 264
Impact craters 265
Box 12.1 Large meteorite impacts: Eltanin and Chicxulub 271
Past and future of Earth in the Solar System 273
13 A geological perspective on climate change 277
Geological factors influencing climate change 277
Box 13.1 Solar heating or greenhouse gas warming? 287
Scales of climate change 291
Box 13.2 Evidence for climate change 292
Mechanisms of short-term climate change 295
14 Cycles in a continental journey 299
Global wandering 299
Cycles of deformation 306
Cycles of climates 309
Evolution and extinctions 311
Epilogue - lessons of geological perspective 313
Sources and references 317
Figure sources 335
Index 341
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