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Post by bryanlettner on Nov 24, 2019 5:26:28 GMT
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Post by ET_Explorer on Nov 24, 2019 9:20:34 GMT
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November 2019 - Sept 7, 2020 20:27:04 GMT
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Post by bryanlettner on Nov 24, 2019 17:12:10 GMT
Thanks, yes i've explored the surrounding coastline pretty thoroughly. Seems likely, I just wonder why this one has a bare or hollow center. Differential erosion? Another thing i thought is that it might be the petrified edges of a river (or a former river in some sense), since there are rivers nearby.
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Post by leong on Jan 19, 2020 11:00:56 GMT
The rocks are in fact sedimentary , and hard ones because the sediments came from igneous rocks up on the hills. (much like Uluru/Ayres Rock is of a harder sedimentary rock than regular sandstone, so it remained uneroded.) Info from geoology of Weipa area... the rocks at the shoreline outcrops are hard peaks of the Rolling Downs Group . The Rolling Downs Group is very large (over to coasts of WA, SA !) and very flat. It was created by sedimentatio and marine life. See www.portergeo.com.au/database/mineinfo.asp?mineid=mn807Probably the parallel formation is due to some sort of uplift there, creating a fold. Its (near) the top of the ridge that divides the two river catchments. The top of the fold being weakened by cracking and being eroded away by the seas waves. But the parallel lines may possibly be the result of some waterway acting like a mould, as in the sediments or lifeform lines the waterway, and then became a hard rock.
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