Flat Friday
During the last few kilometres of the long 343 kilometre run from Cloncurry to Winton the geomorphology of the region changes for a while as you travel through some very different country to the flat grassy plains. As a person with a lifelong intense interest in this stuff, I had been excited during the whole trip to pass through it again. Flat topped mesas are a bit of an item around Winton. They are formed when a tough layer of rock forms a cap and doesn't weather and erode over millions of years. They are also called "jump ups" around here and the Age of Dinosaurs centre on the other side of Winton is actually situated on top of one. We will get there in a couple more days.
Australia also has a number of quite large mesas, Mt. Conner is often mistaken by tourists at first distant sight on the way to Uluṟu as the actual rock; Mt. Oxley is also another large one in northern New South Wales north of Bourke.
Flat Friday
During the last few kilometres of the long 343 kilometre run from Cloncurry to Winton the geomorphology of the region changes for a while as you travel through some very different country to the flat grassy plains. As a person with a lifelong intense interest in this stuff, I had been excited during the whole trip to pass through it again. Flat topped mesas are a bit of an item around Winton. They are formed when a tough layer of rock forms a cap and doesn't weather and erode over millions of years. They are also called "jump ups" around here and the Age of Dinosaurs centre on the other side of Winton is actually situated on top of one. We will get there in a couple more days.
Australia also has a number of quite large mesas, Mt. Conner is often mistaken by tourists at first distant sight on the way to Uluṟu as the actual rock; Mt. Oxley is also another large one in northern New South Wales north of Bourke.