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Discovery Trails to Early Earth

-  A Traveller's Guide to the East Pilbara of Western Australia
by Len Zell

The east Pilbara region in the northwest of Western Australia has one of Earth's best-preserved remnants of ancient crust - crust that is more than 3 500 000 000 years old! The book takes you on a journey through this iconic ancient land. You will see remnants of gigantic volcanic eruptions, rocks virtually untouched by time, the famed 'Marble Bar', and the most ancient traces of life on Earth - stromatolites.

All sites are close to the road, readily accessible, and located for you by GPS. Come travel these six trails, radiating out from Marble Bar, and delve back into Deep Time ...

This book will be of interest to:

• Tourists travelling around Australia - scratch beneath the surface for some hidden secrets
• School children and teachers - there is much to interest you in this book
• Those with an interest in the Pilbara region, its rocks, and its landscapes
• Locals wanting to deepen their knowledge of the region, and perhaps see some areas with new insight
• Geoscientists on holiday

http://www.chartandmapshop.com.au/19162/Discovery-Trails-to-Early-Earth/9781741682458

We present an overview of a new geotourism guidebook on the geology and landforms of the east Pilbara region, Western Australia, a region renowned for its wide-open spaces, turquoise coasts, hottest town, long trains, big ships, and spinifex grass - lots of spinifex. These are the features that most visitors to the region see. But the east Pilbara is much more and has one other feature that makes it unique within Australia and - except for a part of southern Africa - anywhere else in the world. It is a feature that is difficult to see without guidance and that very few people would ever recognize: the east Pilbara is a window into deep time. This special place offers a glimpse of what the world was like 3.5 billion (3 500 000 000) years ago, or three-quarters of the way back in time to the formation of the planet, long before European settlement, before its Aboriginal inhabitants arrived, before marsupial megafauna and dinosaurs, before fish climbed out of the sea, even before multicellular life.
This guidebook will help interested travellers to open that window, help them to see, appreciate, and understand the secrets that are locked in the hills and flat expanses of this region and will give them a sense of the processes and vast timescales involved in the formation of the planet we live on, how life evolved on our planet, and the landscapes we see around us today.
The guidebook includes introductory chapters on Deep time and the early Earth, Geology for beginners, Geological history of the east Pilbara region, and Recent history of the east Pilbara region, covering the major events of Aboriginal and European settlement. This is followed by descriptions of geological and landform stops along five designated routes in this remote, semi-desert area of the world. Stops include localities that demonstrate the bedrock geology (including an array of 3.5-3.0 billion year old igneous and sedimentary rocks), regolith and glacial deposits, an impact breccia horizon, recent landforms, and a walking trail to some of Earth's oldest fossil stromatolites.
The intent of the guidebook is to promote education of people in geosciences, to develop a sense of wonder about our planet, and to promote local tourism through sustainable utilization of its natural geoheritage resource.

http://www.cprm.gov.br/33IGC/1339941.html

Soft plastic cover.168 pages. Full colour. 1st Edition Published 2009.  244mm X 176mm. ISBN 9781741682458. RRP $27.95

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