For decades, the fossils found in the Pilbara region of Western Australia were the subject of heated debate. Were they truly ...

FROM its vast size and its peculiar conditions of physical geography the island-continent of Australia presents formidable difficulties alike to the topographical and the geological surveyor. Of its ...

Geoscientists say a desert of limestone monoliths known as the Pinnacles formed 100,000 years ago during an extremely wet period. Researchers dated iron-rich minerals which formed on the figures as ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia's geological agency has published in-depth minerals mapping data that it hopes will drive fresh investment in mining and agriculture across the country's southeast, the ...