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Mount All<br />

<strong>The</strong> beds <strong>of</strong> the Mount All outcrop are almost vertical and str<strong>at</strong>igraphic<br />

rel<strong>at</strong>ionships between this and the other study loc<strong>at</strong>ions are uncertain. Even the<br />

str<strong>at</strong>igraphic rel<strong>at</strong>ionship between Mount All and Inner Turner’s Hall Ridge, loc<strong>at</strong>ed less<br />

than 1000 m to the northwest, is unclear.<br />

Description<br />

<strong>The</strong> Mount All outcrop has been extensively folded and no l<strong>at</strong>eral rel<strong>at</strong>ionships<br />

could be ascertained between individual measured sections. <strong>The</strong> short measured sections<br />

were made <strong>at</strong> the exposed limb <strong>of</strong> the anticline (MAA, 8 m thick section) and <strong>at</strong> the<br />

vertical beds adjacent to this anticlinal fe<strong>at</strong>ure, MAB (20 m thick section). MAA appears<br />

to occur str<strong>at</strong>igraphically higher than MAB.<br />

Very robust and abundant Thalassinoides (Figure 2.33) and as well as Planolites<br />

trace fossils are observed <strong>at</strong> the Mount All loc<strong>at</strong>ion. Thalassinoides is interpreted as a<br />

combined feeding and dwelling burrow, but has been observed as a boring geometry in<br />

some cases. <strong>The</strong> probable trace maker was an arthropod. Planolites is interpreted as a<br />

feeding burrow made <strong>by</strong> a worm-like animal.<br />

MAA locality<br />

Individual beds <strong>at</strong> this loc<strong>at</strong>ion are predominantly S3 beds (Facies 3) along with,<br />

Td beds and Te beds <strong>of</strong> Facies 5. Channel fill associ<strong>at</strong>ions <strong>at</strong> this loc<strong>at</strong>ion are domin<strong>at</strong>ed<br />

<strong>by</strong> stacked beds <strong>of</strong> Facies 3 coarse grained beds within the system th<strong>at</strong> overlie erosive<br />

channel bases. <strong>The</strong> channel margin associ<strong>at</strong>ion <strong>at</strong> this loc<strong>at</strong>ion is made up <strong>of</strong> thin bedded<br />

turbidites <strong>of</strong> Facies 5 th<strong>at</strong> are interpreted to represent the margins or localized levees <strong>of</strong><br />

the channels (Deptuck, 2003; Schwarz and Arnott, 2007) and are overlain <strong>by</strong> the channel<br />

fill deposits (Figure 2.34).<br />

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