Collection of articles on the highly important finds made over 25 years at Riversleigh and Murgon that have made it possible to understand the last 55 million years here.

This volume focuses on the broad pattern of increasing biodiversity through time, and recurrent events of minor and major ecosphere reorganization. Intense scrutiny is devoted to the pattern of physical (including isotopic), sedimentary and biotic circumstances through the time intervals during which life crises occurred. These events affected terrestrial, lacustrine and estuarine ecosystems, locally and globally, but have affected continental shelf ecosystems and even deep ocean ecosystems. The pattern of these events is the backdrop against which modelling the pattern of future environmental change needs to be evaluated.

From Uluru to the Great Dividing Range, The Geology of Australia explores the timeless forces that have shaped this continent.

Part of a broader project on the Mesozoic phytostratigraphy of eastern Australia supported by the Australian Research Council.