How did the world’s largest sand island K’gari, the indigenous name for eastern Australia’s Fraser Island, along with the Great Barrier Reef, the world’s largest coral reef, come to be? Little is known about the formation of these UNESCO World Heritage-listed sites, which have been influenced by a stable, long-term tectonic history over the Quaternary period that began 2.6 million years ago.
Click here for original story, Scientists say sea-level changes formed Australia’s K’Gari Sand Island, Great Barrier Reef
Source: Phys.org