At https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/the-bungle-bungles-towering-domes-in-the-australian-outback-that-contain-traces-of-the-earliest-life-forms-on-earth … this is presented as a geological oddity for others to peruse. The Bungle Bungles are rock domes – towering domes that form a range, overlooking a flat grassy plain. How did it come about? It is reminiscent, in a way, to karst formations, and the commonality involves the role of water in their formation. Karst is usually carved out of limestone. The Bungle Bungles are classified as sandstone. The sand of course was once just that, sand. It is now a solid. Remaining a sedimentary rock.
They are said to have been forged on an ancient sea bed and we are told that to the NE there is a prehistoric impact crater. Was that responsible for the Bungle Bungles or was it responsible for the flat plain? The columns vary in colour, some are orange and others have dark grey stripes. They are located in an unusual geological region – the Kimberleys. Inside Purnululu National Park.
Others see the domes as beehive shaped hills in an area that has been described as a giant egg box. The domes are as tall as 300 m and rise up from a plain just 10 km from the Piccaninny Crater. The so called early life forms are microscopic algae – cyanobacteria.
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