The Formations at the St Kilda (SA) Breakwater and Channel
There is a plaque at St Kilda (SA) explaining about the rocks used to build the long breakwater there: – Certainly, it can be hard to read, but this is…
The Discovery of a 23m-year-old fossil in Mount Gambier
The Discovery of a 23m-year-old fossil in Mount Gambier By Steve Reynolds (STEVE’S SDFSA SCIENCE STORY for the month of November) I confess that I maintain only a limited interest…
1b year-old green plant fossils found in northern China (Science Story for SDFSA March 2020 newsletter)
If you think that my online ramblings have been light on recently, it is possibly because I have been busy with other projects. One such project has been writing the…
Stromatolites – Part 2
I stated in my “Thrombolites” article in our September 2013 Newsletter (No. 405) that “I couldn’t recall having heard of thrombolites”. That was despite the fact that I had previously…
Thrombolites & Stromatolites
Whilst watching a documentary on ABC TV, I saw what I thought were stromatolites, only to learn that they were called “thrombolites”. I couldn’t recall having heard of thrombolites. These…