Lake Yindarlgooda, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 30° 41' 58'' South , 122° 0' 17'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -30.69948,122.00490 |
GeoHash: | G#: qdwc27368 |
Locality type: | Lake |
Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Ephemeral salt lake.
Many small gold nuggets have been found from metal detecting in the past from the western portions of the salt pan.
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Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 926151 | lunette dunes 72955 Age: Pleistocene (0 - 2.588 Ma) Description: Quartz and gypsum dunes and mounds (kopi); may include minor silt, sand, gravel, and clay flats adjacent to playas; locally includes some playa sediments Comments: regolith; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Regolith Reference: Raymond, O.L., Liu, S., Gallagher, R., Zhang, W., Highet, L.M. Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2012 edition. Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia). [5] |
Neoarchean - Mesoarchean 2500 - 3200 Ma ID: 3187518 | Archean volcanic rocks Age: Archean (2500 - 3200 Ma) Comments: Yilgarn Craton Lithology: Greenstone belt; mafic-ultramafic volcanic rocks Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
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