Scientists Just Solved the Mystery of the Twelve Apostles
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Scientists Just Solved the Mystery of the Twelve Apostles
Australia’s Twelve Apostles are towering time capsules, lifted by tectonics and carved by the sea. Researchers at the University of Melbourne have, for the first time, explained how Australia’s famous Twelve Apostles came to be. Their study shows that slow movements of tectonic plates over millions of years lifted and tilted these massive limestone formations [...]
These columns of rock springing out of the Southern Ocean are among the most photographed coastal formations in the world, yet their geology had never been the subject of detailed mapping. The Twelve Apostles, aligned along the Great Ocean Road in the Australian Victoria, would concentrate fifteen million years of Earth history in their strata. A new study suggests how these pillars would have been built layer by layer, before the waves cut them…
Every year, millions of tourists admire the famous Twelve Apostles in Australia without knowing that they are contemplating a gigantic microscopic cemetery. If these vertiginous cliffs have become one of the geographical emblems of the country, their true genesis has remained an absolute scientific enigma. A recent high-precision mapping has finally deciphered the strata [...]
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