File:Rippled sandstone (Rawnsley Quartzite, Ediacaran; Three Sisters Range, South Australia) 5.jpg

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English: Rippled sandstone in the Precambrian of South Australia.

Seen here are structurally tilted sandstones in the uppermost Precambrian of the South Australian Outback. This is the Rawnsley Quartzite - the beds are steeply dipping eastward (toward the viewer) - they are almost vertical. This site is on the western flank of a large syncline.

The ridges on the exposed bedding plane are ripple marks - they are evenly-shaped and so are identified as symmetrical ripples. Such ripples form in a two-directional, back-and-forth current in very shallow water by wave action.

Stratigraphy: Rawnsley Quartzite, upper Ediacaran (just below the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary, which is a cryptic disconformity here), uppermost Neoproterozoic

Locality: Mernmerna section - dry creek cut south of Merna Mora & north-northwest of Hawker, eastern side of the Three Sisters Range, South Australia (vicinity of 31° 34' 22.69" South latitude, 138° 24' 39.64" East longitude)
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Author James St. John

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