Mystery Craters in Australia

In 1971, this piece of land belonged to a farmer. The farmer wanted to increase the acreage, but kept coming across stones as he tried to clear the land. He noticed that the rocks were not like others in the area and sent them to be examined.
It turned out that the strange rocks were at least 25 million years old and in no way corresponded to the geology of the area.
Since then, geologists from all over the world have been puzzling over what the rock formation near the rum town of Bundaberg in Queensland, Australia, is all about.
It is a massive rock slab approximately 50 meters long and a maximum of ten meters wide. There are 35 craters of different sizes, formed from sandstone and sinter deposits. Some are filled with water, others are dry and appear to be unconnected because they show different water levels. The craters also do not have a rocky base. During excavations in one of the craters, perfect water was found at a depth of 16 meters. The craters were probably once open to their full depth and only filled with deposits over the course of millions of years.
A particular feature that puzzles scientists is the even distribution of red ocher throughout the stone.

When one of the craters was excavated, fossil marine deposits were found. This would support a theory about the formation: namely, that the craters were hollowed out by invading seawater. Other scientists, however, believe it is possible that the rock formation is part of a large meteorite.

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Why does it look like Yellowstone geyser field ?
Because ..its a sandstone mud volcano... What type of rock is that ? Is it even possibly from a meteor ? no, not meteor, no way.

Ochre.. such as what gives Uluru/Ayres Rock its red colour ? And in fact makes the rock, its a particularly hard form of sandstone cemented together by ochre...



Not sure how they dated the rocks at Bundaberg, and that might be the "mystery" ?? The owner talks the mystery up.

But the east coast of Queensland has had many volcanoes and Mount Le Brun , an extinct volcano, is not far from this site, and its only 200,000 years old !.


Its just the hard sandstone rock ... the craters being vents that came through the mud.. geysers basically, the other minerals having weathered away...

The bedrock containing seabed isn't suprising, that probably is seabed. Its only at 50 metres above sealevel, no huge orogeny required to create that little puzzle (sea life above sealevel.)