Twelve Apostles Reveal a 14-Million-Year Geological History
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Microfossil dating places Victoria’s Twelve Apostles between 8.6 and 14 million years old, revealing a tilted, multi-layer record from the Miocene climate transition and showing how erosion created the current sea stacks.
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