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Dunkheld Quarry, Bathurst, NSW
My Research Project in a blue metal quarry in Bathurst, NSW Australia with the most remarkable example of "giant columns' as a product of polygonal columnar jointing.

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If you would like a full-sized version of any of these images, email me at sitemaster@bucksworld.com.au

       
Aerial/Map Views      

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  Columnar Jointing    

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Fluvial Sediments

    

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Column Mineralogy
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Column Geochemistry
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Column Geochemistry
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Column Geochemistry
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Column Geochemistry
Trace Elements 2
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Mineral Thin Sections      

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Present Quarry

  

Analogue site - Mt Panorama, Bathurst

 

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Sediment
Analogue - gold!

 

 

 

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