Sunday, June 2, 2013

Australia, land of possible geologic catastrophes

Imagine if one of these popped up in your backyard! It happened in Australia only 550 million years ago during the Petermann Orogeny.  

Petermann may have also been responsible for the plague of kangaroos this photo is warning about as well!

Auz is doomed, get out while you can, but leave those pestiferous cassowaries. As soon as Australia's plate hits a subduction zone those Auzis will be running like little girls from pyroclastic events! Give'em another 100 million years or so before the Kangaroo poop hits the fan, or more properly, hits the inexorable shifting of tectonic plates.
 
The Journal of Terrifying Geologic Possibilities: the publication doing for geology what global warming did for climatology. 

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