Maria Island National Park within Tasmania is quite spectacular. Not only for its abundant wildlife, but also for its display of geology. It includes beautiful iron stained painted cliffs, a 100 million year geologic gap, more Permian period fossils than you can count, and unusual igneous columns. Today's video discusses the geology of this island which is located not too far away from Hobart in Australia. If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: http://patreon.com/geologyhub) (YouTube membership: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYeGh5VML5XPr5jYnzh3J6g/join) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: http://prospectingarizona.etsy.com) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: http://geologyhub.etsy.com) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under "fair use". If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at [email protected] and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video's thumbnail image (and this list does not include every license used in this video and/or thumbnail image): CC BY-SA 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Sources/Citations: [1] “Maria Island National Park and Ile Des Phoques Nature Reserve Management Plan”, 1998, ISBN 0 7246 2010 9, Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Environment and Land Management [2] Isbell, John & Henry, Lindsey & Reid, Catherine & Fraiser, Margaret. (2013). Sedimentology and palaeoecology of lonestone-bearing mixed clastic rocks and cold-water carbonates of the Lower Permian Basal Beds at Fossil Cliffs, Maria Island, Tasmania (Australia): Insight into the initial decline of the late Palaeozoic ice age. Geological Society London Special Publications. 376. 307-341. 10.1144/SP376.2. [3] Clapham, Matthew & James, Noel. (2008). Paleoecology Of Early-Middle Permian Marine Communities In Eastern Australia: Response To Global Climate Change In the Aftermath Of the Late Paleozoic Ice Age. Palaios. 23. 738-750. 10.2110/palo.2008.p08-022r. [4] Everard, John & Calver, Clive & Taheri, J & Dixon, Grant. (1997). Geology of the islands of southwestern Bass Strait. [5] Brown, A.V., Calver, C.R., M.J. CLARK, Corbett, K.D., Everard, J.L., Grace Cumming, Forsyth, S.M., Goscombe, B.D., David Green, Geoff Green, Carl Jackman, McClenaghan, M.P., McNeill, A.W., Pemberton, J., Seymour, D.B., Michael Vicary, Ian Woolward, Worthing, M., “Geology of Tasmania”, 2025, Mineral Resources Tasmania [6] D. B. Seymour and C. R. Calver, “Explanatory notes for the Time–Space Diagram and Stratotectonic Elements Map of Tasmania”, Tasmanian Geological Survey Record 1995/01, Tasgo NGMA Project Sub-Project 1: Geological Synthesis 0:00 Maria Island, Tasmania 0:47 Marsupial Wildlife 1:03 Turbidity Currents 2:07 Great Unconformity 2:42 Permian Fossils 3:25 Dolerite Cliffs 4:10 Painted Cliffs 4:33 Conclusion