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Mookaite (Windalia Radiolarite Formation, Lower Cretaceous; Western Australia) 51

Mookaite from the Cretaceous of Western Australia.

 

Mookaite is a silicified sedimentary rock from the Lower Cretaceous Windalia Radiolarite Formation, a succession of moderately deep marine siltstones and cherts that contain numerous microfossils of foraminifera, radiolarians, and coccoliths. Because this rock is hard, very fine-grained, and attractively colored, mookaite is valued as knapping material by flintknappers.

 

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Uploaded on September 20, 2024
Taken on September 5, 2024