Re: 340 million year old caves in Australia

[Phillip Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

Thanks to Veigel from Down Undah, here is one URL:

http://www.csiro.au/csiro/content/standard/ps21d,,.html

The primary source is:
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences Vol. 53:377-405.  (June, 2006 issue)

If these caves had openings to the surface as early as the Paleozoic
(that's actually a big "if"), and if the openings stayed connected to the
surface throughout the Mesozoic, then there could be a nearly complete
Carboniferous through Recent biostratigraphic sequence of cave fauna! 
That would be amazing.  The different avenues of study for evolution
researchers is mind boggling. 

Apparently, Quaternary fossils have been known from the caves for some
time.  Now paleontologists just have to dig deeper into the floors of the
caves.

<pb>
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On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:26:36 +0000 (pd) Phillip Bigelow
<bigelowp@juno.com> writes:
> 
> Does anyone have an academic URL (lacking that, a media URL) on the 
> 340
> million year old caves that are found near Sidney, Australia?
> 
> Is anyone currently excavating the caves for Paleozoic cave fauna?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> <pb>
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