uluru
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a)
- Uluru is one of the largest monoliths in the world and is located in the southern portion of the Northern Territory, just north of the Petermann Ranges.
- IT is one of the main features of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and It rises approx. 348 m from the desert floor and has a circumference of about 9km
- Uluru was named "Ayers Rock" by European explorer William Gosse who sighted it in July 1873. It was named by him for the South Australian premier of the time, Sir Henry Ayers. In 1995 the name of the National Park was changed from Ayers Rock-Mount Olga National Park to Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park to acknowledge Anangu ownership and their relationship with the area.
- approx 550 million years ago erosion from the Petermann Ranges led to huge alluvial fans being built up by deposits of Arkose sands from the eroded materials of the adjacent ranges.
- Fifty million years later these alluvial fans were covered by sediments when the region became a shallow sea
- Then during the period from 300-400 million years ago, another uplift (the Alice Springs Orogeny, which created the Macdonnell Ranges to the north of the Uluru area) caused massive folding and faulting in the region, causing the formerly horizontal strata of the Arkose sandstones which comprise Uluru to be folded nearly vertically from their former position
- Then subsequent erosion over the past 300 million years has led to the uncovering of the Arkose sandstones which comprise Uluru and its gradual shaping by erosion into the huge 'monolith' which we can see there today.
- The deposits which previously covered the Arkose sandstones have largely been eroded away, so that Uluru stands high over the surrounding desert plain because its rock is more resistant to erosion than were the rocks which formerly covered it.
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b)
- Uluru otherwise known as Ayer's rock captured the imagination of the Aboriginal people centuries before European Settlement.
- As the national park is one of the main land uses by humans of uluru and the CAH area, the Uluru Aboriginal Cultural Centre is a land use In which simultaneously involves aboriginal use and also tourism...