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h5. Eolian Sand, Red Centre, Australia

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| Red Centre, Australia \\ 
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| *Location* \\ | Curtain Creek, Red Centre, Australia |
| *Depositional facies* \\ | Eolian deposition in dune and interdune areas |
| *Provenance* \\ | Sedimentary rocks in central Australia (e.g. Ayers Rock, Kata Tjuta, Mount Conner) |
| *Composition* \\ | Almost exclusively limpid monocrytalline quartz with FeOx or clay cutanes |
| *Texture* | Very well sorted, subrounded, dim surfaces, red fine sand (125 - 160 μm) |
h6. Petrographic thin section:
| *Description* | Limpid monocrystalline quartz, red FeOx cutanes |

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| *Sample number* | heubeck0043 |
| *Collector* | Dr. Dorothee Mertmann, Universität Halle | 
| *Date of sampling* | 2007 |

h6. Comments:

Red colour of quartz grains caused by FeOx cutanes, frequent humidification through periodical rise of ground water


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