Friday, December 02, 2011

Cheltenham Badlands








The formation was exposed by poor farming practices in the 1930s that led to soil erosion and exposed the underlying shale. The formation is mostly red in colour due to iron oxide deposits with some faint green streaks due to ground water percolation changing the red iron oxide into green iron oxide.




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Blogger missc said...

These are so great :)

miss you! xo

10:10 AM, December 05, 2011  

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