The gold may be gone, but all around Australia abandoned open pit mines have a silver lining:
their excellent exposures reveal the weathering history of our ancient landscapes.
Paleomagnetic dating of deeply oxidised regolith at Meekatharra
(mid west W.A.) has yielded Late Carboniferous weathering ages.
B. Pillans
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