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THE AUSTRALIAN RE, RETRO-BOLTING OPEN FORUM 3-Apr-2004 At 5:13:55 PM hex-TROLL

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Moving Flakes ?

' Geological features maybe threatened by... population pressure... The need for the protection of the more important geological features was recognised early and a number of areas, containing significant geological features, were reserved as public land. These included Hanging Rock (1870) , Werribee Gorge (1908) , Mount Arapiles (1912)... '

Chipping ? , Chopping ? , Bolting ? , Glue-ing ... ? --- look after '... our geological heritage...', dudes .

Fortunately , Araps is , generally , very robust quartzose-meta-sandstone --- things could be very different :

' The terrestrial Baxter Sandstone is... described as consisting of commonly cross-bedded , coarse , moderately to poorly sorted , with variable amounts of gravel ,finer sand and clay.'

Hmmmmm--- anyone care to join Mick Fowler for some ' dry-tooling ' on the Mornington Peninsula ?...

Luv , HEX (with special guests : Douglas&Ferguson , ' Geology of Victoria ').