Surface picture now complete

摘要

THE FINAL TOUCH - and a significant one at that - was added to what has been called the first living map of Australia when a 1:1 million scale representation of Western Australia was joined to the rest of the country just before Christmas. The ambitious project, which was instigated by Geoscience Australia with the help of the state and Northern Territory geological surveys back in 2000, seamlessly links the whole of the nation's surface geology.