Uluru is the latest location to be put on Google Street View, where people can wander about virtually and explore what the site has to offer. The Telegraph explains how the images come together:. You can hop online from anywhere in the world to explore the interactive map of Uluru an extrapolation of the video at top to stroll down the paths around it and listen to audio files from the Anangu people as they explain the site's cultural significance, how it was created, traditional law about the site and more.
In fact, visitors who explore the site this way may learn more about it and be more appreciative of its rich cultural and ecological significance thanks to the added interactiveness of the virtual map. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile. Select personalised ads. Apply market research to generate audience insights.
Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. By Jaymi Heimbuch Jaymi Heimbuch. Uluru itself is formed of a type of rock known as arkose. These flakes are actually tiny bits of rock that have been left on the surface after the decaying of the rock minerals, which is usually caused by water and oxygen erosion.
The red part is actually rusty iron, a chemical that is naturally found in arkose and is grey in its original colour. The Rock Formation of Uluru Uluru itself is formed of a type of rock known as arkose. Explore Our Uluru Tours. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 49 crew.
The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. View this area in EO Explorer. Image of the Day Land. Australia's youngest mainland volcano is Mount Gambier in South Australia which last erupted only about years ago.
In recent years, the advent of improved technology and more extensive geological exploration has resulted in a greater knowledge of the age of rocks in Australia. It has resulted also in an increased ability to better understand the continent's past.
This has been achieved by combining exploration methods such as deep seismic surveys with geochronology methods, including use of equipment such as the Sensitive High-Resolution Ion Microprobe, or SHRIMP.
This equipment uses uranium and lead isotopes from tiny portions of zircon crystals which have been extracted from rock samples to calculate the age of the crystal based on the natural decay rate of uranium to lead.
Formerly named Ayers Rock, this massive sandstone rock covers an area of 3. It rises metres above the plains, and is the surface expression of a much larger volume of rock. An eroded remnant, Uluru was laid down in an inland sea during the Cambrian Period about million years ago. Earth uplifting and folding about - million years ago tipped the rock to create the present vertical orientation from the original horizontal sedimentary strata. Erosion of the surrounding area then left Uluru and nearby Kata Tjuta exposed.
Formally known as the Olgas, Kata Tjuta is made up of 28 rounded domes with the tallest, Mt. Olga at The domes are made of the sedimentary rock conglomerate with iron oxide impurities. The conglomerate resulted from erosion of mountains pushed up during Cambrian earth movements, and consists of sandstone, granite and ironstone bound together by muddy and sandy sediments.
Karlwe Karlwe, or the Devil's Marbles, near Wauchope in the Northern Territory are a collection of large rounded granite boulders, many of which are precariously balanced on top of another.
The granite here formed from molten rock which solidified beneath a layer of sandstone and developed vertical and horizontal fractures.
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