Northern Territory - Surface karst

Introduction

"In Preparation ....."


Selected photographs and diagrams

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C020616.jpg Katherine karst area, Daly Basin, NT
Pinnacle. It is full of holes
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C020619.jpg Katherine karst area, Daly Basin, NT
Close-up of a pinnacle, showing cavernous horizon.
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C020630.jpg Katherine karst area, Daly Basin, NT
Epikarst pinnacles and shafts exposed by soil subsidence.
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C020637.jpg Katherine karst area, Daly Basin, NT
Recent subsidence pit beside the Stewart Highway. Epikarst pinnacles and shafts have been exposed.
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C020608.jpg Katherine karst area, Daly Basin, NT
Lake Hickey (in background) is a "polje" that floods during major wet seasons. In the forground is a marginal ponor that leads to a small cave.

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C020612.jpg Katherine karst area, Daly Basin, NT
Paleokarst fill in an old fissure cave unroofed at the top of a limestone ridge.
Calcrete pisoliths from an old soil fill - or are they cave pearls?
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