PenningtonFSP1

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PenningtonFSP1

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Description:
shore platform exposure of steeply dipping Petrel Cove Formation meta-sandstone, overlain by younger Bridgewater Formation calcareous sandstones. Pennington Bay, Kangaroo Island.
Capture Date: Oct. 20, 2015, 3:33 p.m.
Latitude: -35.86037000000 degrees
Longitude: 137.73471000000 degrees
Elevation: NA
Visualisation Type: FSP
Location Accuracy: 0 metres

Keywords:
  • metasandstone
  • unconformity
  • calcareous sandstone
  • sedimentology
Lithology:
sandstone
Form Type:bedded
Description:Grey-black Bouma-like sandstone-mudstone couplets. Planar-bedded, fine- to medium-grained sandstone grading up to small-scale ripple x-laminated sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.
Min Geological Age:Middle Cambrian
Max Geological Age:Early Cambrian
Min Numerical Age:497.000
Max Numerical Age:541.000
Strat No:15122
Supergroup:Moralana Supergroup
Group:
Subgroup:
Formation:Petrel Cove Formation
Member:
Province:Delamerian Orogen, Stansbury Basin
sandstone
Form Type:bedded
Description:lower member of the Bridgewater Formation: Fine to medium-grained, cream to white, large-scale foreset-bedded calcarenite and calcareous aeolianite, often traversed by red-brown palaeosol horizons. Abundant solution pipes; capped by laminar clay.
Min Geological Age:Late Pleistocene
Max Geological Age:Pleistocene
Min Numerical Age:0.012
Max Numerical Age:0.690
Strat No:2543
Supergroup:
Group:
Subgroup:
Formation:Bridgewater Formation
Member:
Province:Eucla Basin, Murray Basin, St Vincent Basin

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