Changing the way you look at the world
One interesting feature of the rocks around Canberra is that they are confined to a small time-interval on the geological column, that is from the Middle Ordovician to the Late Silurian (see figure 1 for the location of these rocks … Continued
Recently, I visited Canberra, Australia, and checked some of the geological information about that region. I wanted to understand where the rocks around Canberra fitted with Noah’s Flood. Canberra is the federal capital city of Australia where the houses of … Continued
News reports in March 2019 featured an enormous kauri tree (Agathis australis) unearthed at New Zealand’s Ngawha geothermal power station site some 180 km north-north west of Auckland (just 5 km east of Kaikohe).1 In February 2019, it was found … Continued
Recently, a friend asked if I knew about Windjana Gorge in the north of Western Australia. He said, “It is on the Gibb River road in the Kimberley and the information there said the cliffs were a reef. It was … Continued
Here is a great guide for anyone living in the Illawarra Region, just a couple of hours’ drive south of Sydney. It is a beautiful coastal area with a long history of commerce and industry with timber cutting, grazing, coal … Continued
The photo shows ripple marks preserved in a block of Heavitree Quartzite fallen from the east abutment of Heavitree Gap, just south of Alice Springs. The hard, brittle quartzite strata are cracked in multiple directions allowing blocks of quartzite to … Continued
This is the west side Heavitree Gap that cuts a 100-m wide path straight through the Heavitree Range, which runs like a huge wall south of Alice Springs. The road and rail pass through this gap, as does the Todd … Continued
A few weeks ago, I visited Alice Springs in Central Australia where I conducted three geology excursions to three different groups. They went really well. In this photo I’m checking the geology of a road cutting we visited at the … Continued
A lecture by Prof Marco Fiorentini hosted by the University of Western Australia’s Centre for Exploration Targeting caught my attention. It’s entitled “Sulfur dioxide degassing during Archean and the genesis of komatiite-hosted nickel-sulfide mineralisation”. Before I describe why I noticed … Continued
I’ll be presenting at the National Christian Apologetics and Worldview Conference to be held on the Gold Coast, Australia, from Thur 7th to Sat 9th November. It’s a great program that goes to the heart of many issues confronting the … Continued