Geological timeline
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Updated: 14 Feb 2019
for 12ALW interps
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Created bytstayns
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15-20mya: 12 Apostles Limestone laid down~6000 years ago: sea at current levels, Twelve Apostles formedAustralia separates from Antarctica (45mya)Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction (65mya)Europeans arrive in Australia (Late 1700s)Anthropocene: mid-20th Century to presentMoonlight Head top layer (Pebble Point formation) laid down (51-55mya)Dinosaurs of Dinosaur Cove living (~110mya)Acacia and Eucalyptus first present in Australia (25mya)Gondwanaland begins to drift apart (180mya)Australian megafauna extinction (46,000 years ago)Humans arrive in Australia (~60,000 years ago)Last Glacial Maximum (peak of last ice age) ~20,000 years agoBass Strait flooded, separating Tasmania from Australia (8000 years ago)Periods
Oligocene: 40-24 myaMiocene: 24-5.3myaPliocene: 5.3-1.6myaQuaternary Period: 1.6mya to todayPleistocene: 1.6-0.1 million years agoHolocene: 11,500 years ago to mid-20th CenturyJurassic Period 208-144 million years agoCretaceous Period: 144-65 million years agoTertiary period: 65-1.6 million years agoEocene: 58-40myaMoonlight Head lower layer/mudstone (Eumerella Formation) laid down (97-125mya)
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