Etchings at Chillagoe

Joints and beding planes can etch into v-section grooves. There is also fine micro-etching of structures such as irregular cracks, the crystal boundaries of the marbles, or the skeletal structure of fossil corals.

This page overlaps with the page on Microkarren.

Selected photographs and diagrams

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Etched polygonal cracks on a loose flake in pediment.
Also microkarren (teeth) in the areas between the cracks.
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Detail of specimen in photo 752.
Etched polygonal cracks and micro-teeth.
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Etched fine cracks.
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Rillenkarren and micro-karren.
Fine etchings and teeth.
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Etched crystal boundaries - coarse grained marble.
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