A botanical Pompeii: we found spectacular Australian plant fossils from 30 million years ago
- Written by Andrew Rozefelds, Adjunct Assoc Professor Central Queensland University and Principal Curator Geosciences Queensland Museum, CQUniversity Australia
The Australian continent is now geologically stable. But volcanic rocks, lava flows and a contemporary landscape dotted with extinct volcanoes show this wasn’t always the case.
Between 40 and 20 million years ago – during the Eocene to Miocene epochs – there was...