Australia: a Continent Revealed
Author: Neil Hermes
Publisher:
Published: 1996-11-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781853687716
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Zealandia
Author: Hamish Campbell
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2014-08-27
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780143571568
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →*Best Books of 2014* New Zealand Listener Imagine a typical continent with seemingly endless land in all directions. There are broad valleys and uplands, wide-open vistas across undulating plains, and upstanding mountain ranges far in the distance. There may be prominent features that command attention and draw the eye, such as odd-shaped hills, peaks, pinnacles, mesas and volcanoes. And there may be canyons, valleys, gorges, large depressions and basins. Now imagine this same continent under the sea, and largely drowned. Welcome to Zealandia. Continents are some of Planet Earth's most striking geographic and geological features. To have a continental identity is to be important, significant, recognised. This book makes a compelling claim for Zealandia to take its place alongside Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Antarctica. Zealandia is a continent almost entirely submerged. With New Zealand as its largest inhabited land mass, it stretches north to incorporate New Caledonia, south beyond Auckland and Campbell islands, west beyond Australia's Lord Howe Island and east past the Chathams. Its ancestry reaches back more than half a billion years - a long, complex and dramatic story of growth, stretching, break-up, submergence, immersion and collision. The story of its cargo of plant and animal life is also one of change - of extinction, adaption and migration. A big book full of big ideas, and brought to you by renowned GNS scientists Hamish Campbell (co-author of In Search of Ancient New Zealand) and Nick Mortimer, Zealandia: Our Continent Revealed is in every respect a landmark publication - thought-provoking, visually stunning and eminently readable. 'I couldn't resist this superbly illustrated and persuasively written voyage through the distant past. It's fascinating stuff that will undoubtedly generate considerable debate.' - Christopher Moore, New Zealand Listener
The Australian Continent
Author: Brian Kennett
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2018-08-29
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 1760462470
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Australian Continent: A Geophysical Synthesis is designed to provide a summary of the character of the Australian continent through the extensive information available at the continental scale, as a contribution to the understanding of Australia's lithospheric architecture and its evolution. The results build on the extensive databases assembled at Geoscience Australia, particularly for potential fields, supplemented by the full range of seismological information, mostly from The Australian National University. To aid in cross comparison of results from different disciplines, information is presented with a common projection and scales.
Atlantis & Lemuria
Author: Tom T. Moore
Publisher: Light Technology Publishing
Published: 2015-08-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1622337727
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sixty thousand years ago, Earth had two more continents than it does today, each larger than what we now know as Australia. Why are they no longer there? One of these additional continents, Atlantis, was located in the Atlantic Ocean between North America and Africa. The other, Lemuria, was located in the Pacific Ocean. In this book, you’ll learn all about these huge continents and the great civilizations who called them home. What did they look like? What was daily life like for them? What happened to them? Tom asks these intriguing questions and many more. The answers revealed on the pages within dig into the mysteries surrounding the continents of Atlantis and Lemuria and their eventual destructions.
The Geology of Australia
Author: Robert Henderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-09-06
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1107432413
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In Search of Ancient New Zealand
Author: Hamish Campbell
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780143206170
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'In Search of Ancient New Zealand is terrific . . . richly and enticingly illustrated, detailed without being overwhelming, intelligent but understandable, always diverting, it deserves to be widely read.' - Warren Judd, New Zealand Geographic New Zealand is one of the most dynamic landscapes in the world. The evidence is everywhere: soaring mountains, fiery volcanoes, grand fiords, brawling rivers and spectacular lakes. Plants and animals known nowhere else in the world have evolved over millions of years in splendid isolation. How did this happen? What processes brought about such momentous transformations? The bestselling In Search of Ancient New Zealand reveals startling new information about this country's natural history: New Zealand is actually part of the 'lost' continent of Zealandia, a landmass almost half the size of Australia. Most of New Zealand's plants and animals are not remnants from Gondwanaland 83 million years ago but have arrived much more recently. Contrary to accepted theory, New Zealand may have been completely submerged under the sea 23 million years ago. If New Zealand was completely under water, where did the unique kiwi, kakapo, kokako and other special animals come from? A number of native land mammals used to dwell in New Zealand, whereas today there are only two species left - both bats. Why did these mammals disappear? Co-written by geologist Dr Hamish Campbell and award-winning author Gerard Hutching, this revised edition updates recent developments in the Zealandia drowning controversy. '[A] significant book . . . a valuable introduction to the history of New Zealand.' - Howard Williams, Weekend Press
Australia Unveiled
Author: Günter Schilder
Publisher: Computer Science Press, Incorporated
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →History of exploration of Australian coastal regions mainly by the Dutch in the seventeenth century; mostly a cartographical study with brief references to contacts with Aborigines.
A Natural History of Australia
Author: Tim M. Berra
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13:
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The Last Continent
Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2008-11-21
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1407035126
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.' Rincewind, inept wizard and reluctant hero, has found himself magically stranded on the Discworld's last continent. It's hot. It's dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one believes in any more. Practically everything that's not poisonous is venomous. But it's the best bloody place in the world, all right? And in a few days, it will die. The only thing standing between the last continent and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, and he can't even spell wizard. Still . . . no worries, eh? 'A minor masterpiece. I laughed so much I fell from my armchair' Time Out 'A master storyteller' A. S. Byatt The Last Continent is the sixth book in the Wizards series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
Spectacular Australia
Author: Phillip Mathews
Publisher: Hugh Lauter Levin Assc
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780883638460
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Spectacular Australia" covers this enormous country, the flattest and driest on earth, state by state. The guide includes images of the Great Barrier Reef (the largest coral reef on earth) and the massive glowing monoliths of the Red Centre in the Northern Territory. It features the snowcapped peaks and frozen lakes in the rain soaked wilderness of Tasmania.
