Uluru
A vast sandstone monolith at the heart of Australia, sacred to the Anangu.
Dated events and their evidence
- about 540,000,000 years ago mainstream
the Petermann Orogeny thrusts up ancestral ranges to the south, which shed sediment deposited as the alluvial-fan sand that becomes Uluru's arkose source - about 350,000,000 years ago mainstream
the originally near-horizontal sand layers are tilted to their present near-vertical orientation during a later mountain-building episode, possibly the Alice Springs Orogeny source - 30,000 BCE disputed
Anangu occupation of the region (tens of thousands of years) source - 1873 CE mainstream
named Ayers Rock by a European surveyor source - 1985 CE mainstream
the land returned to its Anangu traditional owners source
Where
25.3450° S, 131.0360° E
Sources
Each event carries Aion's own evidence grade (mainstream, disputed or speculative). This page repeats what the globe shows for this place.