Arkaroola 2005
The pictures were taken during the September 2005 field season in Arkaroola, northern Flinders Ranges, Australia.


lizard





Dragon pretending he can't be seen

View of the plane to the east

Sturt desert peas







Clast of Wooltana volcanics in Sturtian tillite

Liesengang-like alteration features in tillite

Fibrous calcite vein in Tindelpina Shale







Fibrous calcite vein disappearing in more dolomitic layer

Shingleback skink (or stumpy-tailed lizard)

Potassium impregnation around pegmatite in basement







Arkaroola Waterhole

Paul Bons and students

Close-up of quartz and actinolite at Yudnamutana







Quartz-hematite vein at Petalinka Waterfall; Bruce Yardley for scale

Quartz-tourmaline vein at Petalinka Waterfall

Young kangaroo







Iron-impregated breccia with growth zoning visible in quartz; contact Wooltana Volcanics-Humanity Seat Formation

Pseudomorphs of cubic mineral (pyrite? fluorite?) at Mt Gee

'Needlehole-quartz', where the quartz is assumed to have grown over laumontite







Clasts of Mesoproterozoic granite in the qurtz-hematite breccia of Mt Gee

Quartz-hematite breccia overprinting the diopside-titanite veins

Sheet-like calcite overgrowth on vein diopside







After two years of drought, the rain had caused an unusual greening of the area

Magnetite in vein within Woodnamooka Phyllite, similar habit as hematite at Petalinka Waterfall

One of The Pinnacles, a leucocratic pegmatite/aplite







Heavy mineral laminations in Humanity Seat Formation

Larg salt cast in Humanity Seat Formation

Very coarsely crystalline quartz vein in Hidden Valley







A rather rough creek crossing in the Mt Babbage Inlier

Steve Hore in his field office

Marlina Elburg in typical fieldwork pose

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