AusGeol.orgPenningtonFSP1
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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
| 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 |