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Tiny crystals from a 17th‑century shipwreck hold secrets of a global supply chain at the dawn of capitalism
Tiny crystals from a 17th‑century shipwreck hold secrets of a global supply chain at the dawn of capitalism
Can pumping groundwater really flip Earth’s poles? An expert explains
Published on
31 Jul 2026
We found the world’s oldest asteroid strike in Western Australia. It might have triggered a global thaw
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22 Jan 2020
Just add (mantle) water: new research cracks the mystery of how the first continents formed
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1 Apr 2021
A meteorite impact may have once rained gold on Western Australia
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10 Jun 2026
Earth’s oldest crater really is over 3 billion years old
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24 Jun 2026
Microbes destroyed an ancient pterosaur’s wingbone, then preserved it for 100 million years
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19 Jun 2026
Rare 567‑million‑year‑old fossils refine our understanding of early animal evolution
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21 May 2026
A ‘cosmic clock’ in tiny crystals has revealed the rise and fall of Australia’s ancient landscapes
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14 Jan 2026
Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust have captured the movement of the Milky Way’s spiral arms
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17 Sep 2025
Australia has some new marsupial species – but they’re already extinct
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5 Sep 2025
Unearthing New Clues at Nifty: A Fresh Look at Western Australia’s Copper Treasure
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14 Aug 2025
For the first time, fossil stomach contents of a sauropod dinosaur reveal what they really ate
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10 Jun 2025
1 billion years ago, a meteorite struck Scotland and influenced life on Earth
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29 Apr 2025
Earth’s oldest impact crater was just found in Australia – exactly where geologists hoped it would be
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6 Mar 2025
Giant glaciers pulverised Earth’s ancient rocks, setting the stage for complex life
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26 Feb 2025
Limestone and iron reveal puzzling extreme rain in Western Australia 100,000 years ago
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3 Oct 2024
The Altar Stone of Stonehenge came from an unexpectedly distant place, new study reveals
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15 Aug 2024
A groundbreaking discovery: how we found remnants of Earth’s primordial crust near Perth
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20 Jun 2024
Fresh water and key conditions for life appeared on Earth half a billion years earlier than we thought
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4 Jun 2024
565-million-years-old, some of the oldest UK fossils are eerily similar to famous Australian ones
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16 Jan 2024
We discovered three new species of marsupial. Unfortunately, they’re already extinct
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30 Oct 2023
Most pink diamonds were birthed by a disintegrating supercontinent. Where can we find more?
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20 Sep 2023
We found out when the Nullarbor Plain dried out, splitting Australia’s ecosystems in half
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18 Apr 2023
How the world’s oldest known meteorite impact structure changed the chemistry of Earth’s crust
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12 Apr 2023
Chernobyl was history’s worst nuclear disaster. Now it’s teaching geologists about the history of our planet
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21 Mar 2023
Our Solar System is filled with asteroids that are particularly hard to destroy, new study finds
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24 Jan 2023
A giant ‘bullseye’ on the Nullarbor Plain was created by ancient sea life
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8 Sep 2022
Scientists have traced Earth’s path through the galaxy via tiny crystals found in the crust
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24 Aug 2022
What created the continents? New evidence points to giant asteroids
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11 Aug 2022
Perfectly imperfect: the discovery of the second-largest pink diamond has left the world in awe. What gives diamonds their colour?
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20 Jul 2022
We shaved a billion years off the age of the youngest known Moon rocks, and rewrote lunar geological history
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8 Oct 2021
When Greenland was green: rapid global warming 55 million years ago shows us what the future may hold
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23 Aug 2021
Not so foolish after all: ‘fool’s gold’ contains a newly discovered type of real gold
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28 Jun 2021
Tiny crystals from a 17th‑century shipwreck hold secrets of a global supply chain at the dawn of capitalism
Published on
29 Jun 2026
Why was the early Earth so hot? The heat wasn’t just coming from the inside
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26 Jun 2026
New technology offers hope for storing carbon dioxide underground
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10 Jun 2016
How chemical clues from prehistoric microbes rewrote the story of one of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions
Published on
18 Nov 2020
Can pumping groundwater really flip Earth’s poles? An expert explains
Published on
31 Jul 2026
Tiny crystals from a 17th‑century shipwreck hold secrets of a global supply chain at the dawn of capitalism
Published on
29 Jun 2026
Why was the early Earth so hot? The heat wasn’t just coming from the inside
Published on
26 Jun 2026
Earth’s oldest crater really is over 3 billion years old
Published on
24 Jun 2026
Microbes destroyed an ancient pterosaur’s wingbone, then preserved it for 100 million years
Published on
19 Jun 2026
A meteorite impact may have once rained gold on Western Australia
Published on
10 Jun 2026
Rare 567‑million‑year‑old fossils refine our understanding of early animal evolution
Published on
21 May 2026
A ‘cosmic clock’ in tiny crystals has revealed the rise and fall of Australia’s ancient landscapes
Published on
14 Jan 2026
Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust have captured the movement of the Milky Way’s spiral arms
Published on
17 Sep 2025
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AnalyZr
A Python application for zircon grain image segmentation and shape analysis
Citation: Scharf, T., Kirkland, C. L., Daggitt, M. L., Barham, M., & Puzyrev, V. (2022). AnalyZr: A Python application for zircon grain image segmentation and shape analysis. Computers & Geosciences, 162, 105057.
Crayfish
An application to process U-Th disequilibrium data from the SHRIMP II instrument
Citation: Marsden, R. C., Kirkland, C. L., Danišík, M., Daggitt, M. L., Ahn, U.-S., Friedrichs, B., & Evans, N. J. (2022). A new approach to SHRIMP II zircon U-Th disequilibrium dating. Computers & Geosciences, 158, 104947.
Heavy Mineral Sand Toolbox
A Heavy Mineral Sand Toolbox to mineral sands exploration: Leveraging state-of-the-art technologies to minimize exploration risks through understanding of complex grain histories
Citation: The Timescales of Mineral Systems Group presents an integrated toolkit for understanding mineral sands through geochronology, geochemistry, and grain shape analysis. This work was supported by MRIWA grant M551.
U-Pb Unmixer
An application to extract meaningful U-Pb ages from mixed analyses following some verifiable assumptions
Citation: Olierook, H. K. H., Kirkland, C. L., Barham, M., Daggitt, M. L., Hollis, J., & Hartnady, M. (2021). Extracting meaningful U-Pb ages from core–rim mixtures. Gondwana Research, 92, 102-112.
Pb loss
A Python application to estimate the most likely time of Pb loss in discordant zircon U–Pb datasets
Citation: Mathieson, L. M., Kirkland, C. L. & Daggitt, M. L. (2025). Turning trash into treasure: Extracting meaning from discordant data via a dedicated application. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 26, e2024GC012066.
ArcDEA
ArcDEA is the unofficial Digital Earth Australia (DEA) ArcGIS Pro plugin.
Citation: Trotter, L. & Robinson, T. P. (2025). ArcDEA: a ArcGIS Pro plugin for accessing Digital Earth Australia imagery (Version 0.6). Zenodo.
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