AusGeol.orgPenningtonFSP4
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PenningtonFSP4
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Description:
shore-platform and cliff exposures, showing flat-lying to gently dipping? Calcareous beds of the Bridgewater Formation. Pennington Bay, Kangaroo Island.
| Capture Date: | Oct. 20, 2015, 3:34 p.m. |
| Latitude: | -35.85964000000 degrees |
| Longitude: | 137.73453000000 degrees |
| Elevation: | NA |
| Visualisation Type: | FSP |
| Location Accuracy: | 0 metres |
Keywords:
- calcareous sandstone
- sedimentology
| sandstone | |
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| 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 |
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| Formation: | Bridgewater Formation |
| Member: | |
| Province: | Eucla Basin, Murray Basin, St Vincent Basin |