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First humans in Tasmania must have seen spectacular auroras: Laschamp excursion occurred in Australia and seen by first humans – Science Daily
A small sub-alpine lake in western Tasmania has helped establish that 41,000 years ago Australia experienced the Laschamp geomagnetic excursion and that Tasmanian,…
Drilling a 270,000-year old core from a Tasmanian lake has provided the first Australian record of a major global event where the Earth’s magnetic field ‘switched ‘- and the opportunity to establish a precedent for developing new paleomagnetic dating tools for Australian archaeology and paleosciences.”This is the first study of this kind in Australia since pioneering studies in the 1980s,” said author Dr Agathe Lisé-Provonost, a McKenzie Fellow from the School of Earth Sciences at the University…
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