WO5H Coal Mine, Collie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 33° 27' 3'' South , 116° 13' 2'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -33.45108,116.21726 |
GeoHash: | G#: qd49sw6v6 |
Locality type: | Mine |
Köppen climate type: | Csb : Warm-summer Mediterranean climate |
A small former open cut coal mine, just north of the Lake Kepwari Mindat locality. After mining ceased, a small round lake formed in the pit, which unlike nearby lakes is not acidic.
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Cenozoic 0 - 66 Ma ID: 777284 | ferruginous duricrust 38498 Age: Cenozoic (0 - 66 Ma) Description: Ferruginous duricrust, laterite; pisolitic, nodular, vuggy; may include massive to pisolitic ferruginous subsoil, mottled clays, magnesite, reworked products of ferruginous and siliceous duricrusts, calcrete, gossan; residual ferruginous saprolite 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: 3189638 | Archean crystalline metamorphic rocks Age: Archean (2500 - 3200 Ma) Comments: Yilgarn Craton Lithology: Amphibolite/granulite grade orthogneiss 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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