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Schistosity is a thin layering of the rock produced by metamorphism that permits the rock to be easily split into thin layers or flakes.
(rocks with a high degree of schistosity are commonly known as schists. Typically, they have a “grainy” appearance)
Some schists look quite prosaic.
Others are very beautiful.
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Only a few metres away from the rock in yesterday’s post, this one also exhibits “a high degree of schistosity”, but its appearance is utterly different.
A deal of the “rockscape” on West Beach resembles a hallucinatory version of the Nazi coastal defences which were intended to make Normandy’s beaches “impregnable”.
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Strikingly evident in episodes 5 through 8 of this 10-part sequence is…
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If you stood just a little above West Beach’s high tide line, facing the Southern Ocean, and you then turned around 180 degrees to look at the slope behind the beach…
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Today’s image looks east, to the eastern end of West Beach.
I do not know why this is so, but, generally speaking, coastal heath on Australia’s western side appears to be in a healthier state than is coastal heath on Australia’s eastern shores.
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Today’s photo was taken less than 60 seconds after yesterday’s image.
This one looks south, across rock pools, to where the Southern Ocean reaches its northern shoreline.
Comments closedWonderfully wild, yet easily accessible, it is a very short walk away from a sealed road, car park and picnic shelter.
This West Beach will definitely not remind you of Adelaide’s tamer beach of the same name!
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Neither Cabernets, kangaroos, Communists, nor U.S. Republicans – and never married to Alan Bond…
This post’s “Big Reds” are uncommonly splendid, very upstanding members of the bloodwort family, Haemodoracea.
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Verticordia is a genus of circa 102 “feather flower” species, of which circa 100 naturally occur only in Western Australia’s southwest.
Literally translated, Verticordia means “turner of hearts”, an epithet applied to the Roman goddess Venus.
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How did Australia come to adopt such an unusual, infantile, and palpably unfair approach to inherited wealth?
How can Australian taxpayers/non-payers – and Australia’s remarkably craven/spineless governments – be persuaded to change it?
Peter Browne attempts to answer those questions in his essay, Syd Negus, the forgotten tax-slayer.
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