Kennedy Range
An eroded sandstone plateau about 150 km long, 150 km east of Carnarvon in Western Australia: a huge mesa with cliffs and canyons up to some 100 m deep, built of sand laid down in a shallow Permian sea.
Dated events and their evidence
- about 260,000,000 years ago mainstream
the shallow-marine sandstones of the Kennedy Group are laid down in repeated 3 to 10 m cycles, in the middle to late Permian source - about 117,000,000 years ago mainstream
the Windalia Radiolarite, radiolarian-rich black shale that is the source of the ornamental stone mookaite, is laid down in a shallow sea in the late Aptian (the Aptian runs from about 121 to 113 million years ago) source - 1858 CE mainstream
the explorer Francis Thomas Gregory names the range after Governor Arthur Edward Kennedy source - 1993 CE mainstream
Kennedy Range National Park is gazetted source
Where
24.5790° S, 115.0500° E
Sources
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-0952.2002.00939.x
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Range_National_Park
- https://doi.org/10.1144/jm.24.1.55
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiolarite
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptian
- https://ozgeology.com/blogs/news/the-only-place-on-earth-you-can-find-this-rock
Each event carries Aion's own evidence grade (mainstream, disputed or speculative). This page repeats what the globe shows for this place.