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ULURU
by Emelia O'Leary
WHAT IS IT
What is it?
Uluru (or Ayers Rock) is a very large rock formation, and is one of Australia's most recognisable landmarks. The 300 million-year-old rock rises 348m above the ground and was discovered by William Gosse in the 1800s.
WHAT TYPE OF ROCK IS IT
What type of rock is it?
Uluru is a monolith (a large single upright block of stone, shaped into a monument) composed of arkose, a coarse grained sandstone rich in the mineral feldspar. Arkose is a sedimentary rock.
HOW WAS IT FORMED
How was it formed?
After a long period of rapid mountain building and erosion, the centre of Australia turned into an inland sea and a phase of deposition began in what is now known as the Amadeus Basin.
Limestone, sand and mud deposited in the Amadeus Basin and that buried the arkose that eventually formed Uluru. The sandy sediment, which hardened to form arkose, was eroded from high mountains composed largely of granite.
Around 400 million years ago the sands and gravels of Uluru were so far down, and under so much pressure, they changed from sediment into rock.
Meaning to Aborigines
What does it mean to Aboriginals?
Called Ayers Rock by settlers, the ownership of the rock was transferred to the Aboriginals of the area and it regained its Aboriginal name of Uluru, which means Great Pebble.
The Uluru region, the local tribe were named the Anangu people. Dating back more than 60,000 years, the Anangu people believe that by simply touching the rocks they can communicate with dreamtime and receive blessings from their ancestors.
Ayers Rock tours incorporate the amazing rock paintings of the Anangu, which are seen as a record of the very period of dreamtime. The rock’s caves, cliffs and fissures contain countless petroglyphs that tell the story of the ancestors. Certain rock outcroppings represent ancestral spirits, and the Anangu .
In the creation period, Tatji, the small Red Lizard, who lived on the mulgi flats, came to Uluru. He threw his kali, (a curved throwing stick) and it became embedded in the surface. He used his hands to scoop it out in his efforts to retrieve his kali, leaving a series of bowl-shaped hollows.
Unable to recover his kali, he finally died in this cave. His implements and bodily remains survive as large boulders on the cave floor.
The Bell-Bird brothers, were stalking an emu. The disturbed animal ran northward toward Uluru. Two blue-tongued lizard men, Mita and Lungkata, killed it, and butchered it with a stone axe. Large joints of meat survive as a fractured slab of sandstone.
When the Bell-Bird brothers arrived, the lizards handed them a skinny portion of emu, claiming there was nothing else. In revenge, the Bell-Bird brothers set fire to the Lizard's shelter. The men tried to escape by climbing the rock face, but fell and were burned to death. The gray lichen on the rock face is the smoke from the fire and the lizard men are two half-buried boulders.
THE WEBSITES I USED
Bibliography?
https://uluru-australia.com/about-uluru/
https://uluru-australia.com/about-uluru/what-is-uluru/
https://www.environment.gov.au/topics/national-parks/uluru-kata-tjuta-national-park/natural-environment/geology
https://ulurutoursaustralia.com.au/blog/the-significance-of-uluru-to-australian-indigenous-culture/
https://eddyhawker-rocks.weebly.com/aboriginal-dream-time.html
http://edf2301uluru.blogspot.com/2011/03/dreamtime-stories.html?_sm_au_=iFr7r532JnvS0ffcN28f8KHTCCsq4