Coolgardie railway station 2008

Tales from the Archaen of the Eastern Goldfields 22. Apr 2015.5:30 pm - 6:30 pm (Save to cal) WA Museum Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie Presented by Bob Fagan, Adjunct Professor, Curtin University Imagine an environment, so hostile and foreign as being more like another planet than the planet Earth we currently know: an atmosphere so thick it would crush you. a perpetual blood red sky composed of more than 90% CO2 and devoid of oxygen.. a year of over 1000 days, each only 8 hours long a moon four times larger in the sky and a feeble sun of low luminosity continuous submarine lava flows and explosive volcanism a sea (more like soup) brimming with primitive bacteria, enormous organic molecules, saturated with dissolved iron and with tidal ranges of 10 metres or more an early ancient (2.7 billion year) coastline of Australia with a broad sandy beach just west of Kalgoorlie a coastal plain stretching back to an enormous glaciated mountain range running over 1000 km in length and extending some 200-300 km as far as Merredin. This is just some of what the Kalgoorlie region was like during the Archaean period. from www.sciencewa.net.au/-events/itemlist/category/11-adminis... 110