Australia Tibooburra

Figure 4.1 Silcretes in the landscape (A) Silcrete outcrop near Albertinia, Western Cape, South Africa, with eroded remnants of the deeply-weathered African palaeosurface in the background (B) Silcrete caprock overlying basalt at the eastern margin of the Kalahari Group sediments, Sesase Hill, Botswana (C) Undulating surface of a silcrete-capped mesa north of Tibooburra, New South Wales, Australia (D) Silcrete outcrop on the flanks of the Moshaweng Valley, south of Letlhakeng, Botswana.

Figure 4.3 Pedogenic silcrete profiles. (A) In situ silcrete profile developed within deeply weathered bedrock, near Inniskillin, Western Cape, South Africa. (B) Cambered silcrete profile in the Mt Wood Hills area near Tibooburra, New South Wales, Australia, showing columnar structures and candle-wax drips. (C) Columnar silcrete profile, Montagny Lencoup, Paris Basin, France.

Tait, M. (1998) Geology and landscape evolution of the Mt Wood Hills area, near Tibooburra, northwestern New South Wales. Unpublished Honours Thesis, Department of Earth Sciences, La Trobe University, Australia. 

Watts, S.H. (1978a) The nature and occurrence of silcrete in the Tibooburra area of northwestern New South Wales. In Langford-Smith, T. (Ed.) Silcrete in Australia. Armidale University of New England Press, pp. 167-85. 

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