Drik Drik area and 3DD-4 Geology


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C990405t.jpg 3DD-4: Entrance doline.
Tg = Miocene Gambier limestone.
Qrt = Quaternary talus rubble formed adjacent to a fault scarp (or old sea cliff?).
Qpd = Quaternary dune sands - with cross bedding.

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C990406t.jpg 3DD-4: Entrance doline.
Qrt = Quaternary talus rubble formed adjacent to a fault scarp (or old sea cliff?).
Qpd = Quaternary dune sands - with cross bedding.
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D042547.jpg 3DD-4: Entrance doline.
Detail of Quaternary talus rubble, showing weathered cobbles.
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C011224.jpg 3DD-4:
Laminated mud in wall pockets (exposed by spalling of the walls)

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C991216.jpg 3DD-4: Between 1st and 2nd rockfall.
Laminated mud & fine sand (old cave stream sediments) overlying white Tertiary limestone.

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C991215.jpg 3DD-4: Between 1st and 2nd rockfall.
Laminated mud & fine sand (old cave stream sediments) overlying white Tertiary limestone.

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C011211.jpg 3DD-4:
Mud band exposed in freshly broken wall.

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C011209.jpg 3DD-4:
Liesegang bands (fine brown lines) exposed on a freshly broken limestone wall.
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D050661.jpg 3DD-4: Between 1st and 2nd Rockfall.
Draped mud deposits.
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