What is this.
Submitted: Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 19:14
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batsy
When one is wandering around this incredible land we call
home we often come across things that look.......well different. This was one of those things for us.
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Batsy
What is it
Reply By: RMD - Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 19:23
Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 19:23
A meteorite? They have pock marks on their surface. Obviously chosen as different by those who placed the trim on top.
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Follow Up By: batsy - Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 19:26
Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 19:26
Ah not a meteorite RMD as I understand it. Quite different actually.
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Follow Up By: The Explorer - Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 19:47
Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 19:47
Looks like
limestone.
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Greg
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Follow Up By: batsy - Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 19:49
Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 19:49
Yes Greg marine
limestone I believe but there is more to the full answer.
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Follow Up By: The Explorer - Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 20:07
Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 20:07
Could be a fossil on top of the
limestone ? No idea where it is.
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Follow Up By: batsy - Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 20:10
Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 20:10
Yes again Greg there are fossils but still not the correct full answer.
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Reply By: Member - Mark (Tamworth NSW) - Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 20:03
Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 20:03
Karst Limetone to be more narrow?
Mark
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Follow Up By: batsy - Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 20:12
Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 20:12
Mark I don't believe it is Karst
limestone but may be corrected later. Certainly no Karst
limestone in this area.
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Reply By: Member - Jim S1 - Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 20:21
Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 20:21
Fossilised reef ?
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Follow Up By: batsy - Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 20:23
Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 20:23
Jim I guess it could be but not the answer.
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Reply By: gke - Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 20:53
Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 20:53
Fossilised stromatolites?
Graham.
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Follow Up By: batsy - Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 20:57
Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 20:57
Good guess Graham but not correct this time.
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Reply By: Member - JOHN C16 - Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 21:23
Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 21:23
Cambrian Pancakes- stacks of Cambrian marine
limestone. Looks like
Riversleigh QLD.
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Follow Up By: batsy - Friday, May 22, 2020 at 07:45
Friday, May 22, 2020 at 07:45
Again you are correct John C16 as they are indeed Cambrian Pancakes. The close up rock shows the impregnated crustaceans & behind on the escarpment the pancake formations.
Well done for name & place. You & Stephen would be a top team.
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Batsy
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Reply By: OzzieCruiser - Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 22:04
Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 22:04
Thats easy - what is it? A pile of rocks.
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Follow Up By: batsy - Friday, May 22, 2020 at 07:47
Friday, May 22, 2020 at 07:47
Yes but a particular type of pile of rocks. John C16 above has the answer & place.
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Batsy
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Reply By: Member - JOHN C16 - Friday, May 22, 2020 at 08:03
Friday, May 22, 2020 at 08:03
Another oddity.
What is this? Where is it ?
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Follow Up By: Frank P (NSW) - Friday, May 22, 2020 at 12:46
Friday, May 22, 2020 at 12:46
Is it a quartz outcrop?
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Follow Up By: Member - JOHN C16 - Friday, May 22, 2020 at 16:54
Friday, May 22, 2020 at 16:54
Yes it is
Limestone Gorge. Well done Don & Kathie.
The white stuff is calcium carbonate or calcite. The formation is a calcite flow.
Calcite flow
Fossilised stromatolites can also be seen from the calcite flow
lookout.
Stromatolite
Stromatolites
also has tufa dams, a beautiful billabong and an interesting ridge walk from the old campground.
Limestone Creek Billabong
Cheers, John
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Reply By: Life Member - Duncan W (WA) - Friday, May 22, 2020 at 10:30
Friday, May 22, 2020 at 10:30
Could be salt leeching out of the surrounding area.
But in the
Little Sandy Desert we encountered a seam of white ochre that looked like that but different topography and surrounding rock.
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Follow Up By: Member - JOHN C16 - Friday, May 22, 2020 at 11:25
Friday, May 22, 2020 at 11:25
Good thinking Dunc, but the white stuff is not salt or ochre.
John
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Follow Up By: Life Member - Duncan W (WA) - Friday, May 22, 2020 at 12:23
Friday, May 22, 2020 at 12:23
Got it !!!!!!!!! It's the dumping ground for all that stockpiled dunny paper! LOL
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Follow Up By: OBJ - Friday, May 22, 2020 at 16:26
Friday, May 22, 2020 at 16:26
Correct, Dunc. Ditched there by the bloke who tried to get a refund on the 800 rolls he bought at the start of the Covid thing, and the Supermarket refused to give him a refund.
OBJ
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