All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 November Geologists probe ancient African volcanoes in WA Geologists probe ancient African volcanoes in WA 13/11/2020 | 3 MINS Researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology have led an international team of scientists to investigate ancient volcanoes in Western AustraliaΓÇÖs vast interior that could reveal the relative position between Africa and Australia two billion years ago. Using state-of-the-art analytical infrastructure, the researchers precisely dated and fingerprinted the magmas, which erupted from these volcanoes, and presented an exciting hypothesis: African volcanoes in Western Australia. Lead author Professor Marco Fiorentini said the volcanoes were special because they held the key to an important question that had kept geologists puzzled for many years: what was the relative position between Africa and Australia two billion years ago? ΓÇ£Amid the vast emptiness in the centre of Western Australia lies a region where ancient volcanoes are exposed over an area the size of Ireland,ΓÇ¥ Professor Fiorentini said. ΓÇ£Through so
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 November Geologists probe ancient African volcanoes in WA Geologists probe ancient African volcanoes in WA 13/11/2020 | 3 MINS Researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology have led an international team of scientists to investigate ancient volcanoes in Western AustraliaΓÇÖs vast interior that could reveal the relative position between Africa and Australia two billion years ago.
Using state-of-the-art analytical infrastructure, the researchers precisely dated and fingerprinted the magmas, which erupted from these volcanoes, and presented an exciting hypothesis: African volcanoes in Western Australia.
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Lead author Professor Marco Fiorentini said the volcanoes were special because they held the key to an important question that had kept geologists puzzled for many years: what was the relative position between Africa and Australia two billion years ago?
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ΓÇ£Amid the vast emptiness in the centre of Western Australia lies a region where ancient volcanoes are exposed over an area the size of Ireland,ΓÇ¥ Professor Fiorentini said.
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