AusGeol.orgWindjanaFSP1
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WindjanaFSP1
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Description:
view of the 'Classic Face' of Windjana Gorge, showing different reef facies. Windjana Gorge, W.A.
| Capture Date: | June 5, 2016, noon |
| Latitude: | -17.41155000000 degrees |
| Longitude: | 124.96238000000 degrees |
| Elevation: | NA |
| Visualisation Type: | FSP |
| Location Accuracy: | 0 metres |
Keywords:
- palaeontology
- fossil
- Classic Face
- reef
| limestone | |
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| Form Type: | bedded |
| Description: | Fossiliferous, shallow marine reef complex marginal slope and basin facies, red yellow and light grey silty calcarenite interbedded with siltstone, shale/calcirudite and sandstone. |
| Min Geological Age: | Famennian |
| Max Geological Age: | Frasnian |
| Min Numerical Age: | 358.900 |
| Max Numerical Age: | 382.700 |
| Strat No: | 27212 |
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| Formation: | Napier Formation |
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| limestone | |
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| Form Type: | bedded |
| Description: | Massive to crudely bedded cyanobacterial and minor stromatoporoid reef limestone with contemporaneous deposition of microcrystalline calcite |
| Min Geological Age: | Famennian |
| Max Geological Age: | Famennian |
| Min Numerical Age: | 358.900 |
| Max Numerical Age: | 372.200 |
| Strat No: | 20226 |
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| Formation: | Windjana Limestone |
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