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| Uluru with a rare snow cap or is that iced choc mud-cake? |
Europeans didn’t even
know ‘Uluru’ existed in the Red Centre of Australia until Saturday 19th
July 1873, when surveyor William Gosse came over the horizon.
Wow!! One rock 348 metres high and 9.4 kilometres
around (and possibly 6 kilometres deep) - even bigger than the rocks in Texas!
If Gosse had
waited 124 years he would have seen this snow cap too.
Geologists tell us that
Uluru is an ‘inselberg’ or island mountain comprising ‘arkose’ – coarse-grained
sandstone rich in feldspar - in nearly vertical
strata. Nearby, Kata Tjuta (The Olgas) are almost as stunning but very different - conglomerates of pebbles, cobbles and boulders cemented by sand and mud.
Us johnny-come-lately’s
who have known of Uluru for only 140 years, think we have it all worked out – ‘It
formed 600-900 million years ago (that’s a huge range), with crumpling and
buckling occurring about 550 million years ago and further sedimentation
occurring until 300 million years ago.’
That’s the best we can come up with - lot’s of time and then erosion and lot’s of that too. What about the caves in Uluru?...arrrh…not sure.
That’s the best we can come up with - lot’s of time and then erosion and lot’s of that too. What about the caves in Uluru?...arrrh…not sure.
Have we forgotten many helpless
Europeans owe their lives to the intelligent survival skills of the original
Anangu custodians of Uluru and Kata Tjuta?
These custodians for
thousands of years, the Pitjanjatjara people living in tune with their land,
say something quite different:
“Ancestral spirits
formed these sites during the Creation period.”
“There was nothing on
the Earth until their ancestors – in the forms of people, plants and
animals.”
Mmmm….that’s much closer
to what the Bible teaches about a sudden global upheaval and deluge after
Creation - but that must not be an option.
Acknowledgements:
environment.gov.au
wikipedia.com
Andrew Snelling / creation.com
Photo
credits:
Uluru
/ flickr.com
Kata
Tjuta / ericksongypsycaravan.wordpress.com
Hi Kyle, good photo and good information. Sometimes Aboriginal culture is closer to the truth than Western culture. Also, I have some good photos of Uluru and the Olga's if you want them.
ReplyDeleteYes, please! they may be better than these.....and thanks for your comment Tony. I recall a deputy prime minister slinging off at barbaric people who hadn't even invented the wheel for themselves but I know who I'd rather trust my life to out in the Centre.
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