Wabma Kadarbu mound springs
Desert springs in South Australia where water of the Great Artesian Basin, the world's largest artesian basin, rises to the surface and builds mounds of carbonate. The mounds of Blanche Cup and the Big Bubbler are about 11,000 and 15,000 years old.
Dated events and their evidence
- about 2,000,000 years ago mainstream
the oldest groundwater in the south-western discharge zones of the Great Artesian Basin is nearly 2 million years old, by carbon-14, chlorine-36 and flow modelling source - 13,100 BCE mainstream
the spring deposit of the Big Bubbler gives a luminescence age of about 15,100 years (plus or minus 2,200) source - 8,900 BCE mainstream
the spring deposit of Blanche Cup gives a luminescence age of about 10,900 years (plus or minus 1,500) source - 1996 CE mainstream
Wabma Kadarbu Mound Springs Conservation Park is proclaimed; by 2012 it is co-managed with the Arabana people source
Where
29.4600° S, 136.9125° E
The point is the conservation park's listed position. Its springs, among them Blanche Cup and The Bubbler, lie along the Oodnadatta Track about 130 km north of Marree.
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabma_Kadarbu_Mound_Springs_Conservation_Park
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Artesian_Basin
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08120090701689340
- https://doi.org/10.5962/p.357836
- https://doi.org/10.1029/91wr02078
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeps.2013.03.055
- https://ozgeology.com/blogs/news/the-great-artesian-basin-ancient-water-beneath-the-outback
Each event carries Aion's own evidence grade (mainstream, disputed or speculative). This page repeats what the globe shows for this place.