Northern Territory
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Gosses Bluff is a place of great cultural significance to the Indigenous Aboriginal of Australia and international scientific interest. It is assumed that the the magnificent surface of the Gosses Bluff was created after a comet crashed the earth around 142.5 million years ago creating a crater around 20 kilometres across. The crater was named Gosses' range by the explorer Ernest Giles in 1872 after H, Gosse a fellow of the Royal Society
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LocationGosses Bluff is located in the southern Northern Territory near the centre of Australia about 275 kilometres west of Alice Springs to the northern east of Uluru. |
FormationAccording to the Aboriginal beliefs the Gosses bluff also known as the Tnorala was formed during the creation time when a group of women danced across the sky as the Milky way. During this the mother put her baby aside in a wooden baby carrier. This carrier toppled off the edge of the dancing area and crashed to earth in which formed the circular shaped rock, now called Gosses Bluff. Geographically, it was formed by collision onto the earth’s surface 140 million years ago. The Geologists assume that a comet hit the earth’s crust, a force so large that it is about 200, 00 times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb and destroy many land areas and affect the weather patterns. Though there was no evidence that there was any asteroids or comets so they thought they were suspended in the air before it hit the ground. |