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Humbling hills

21 December 2019

9:00 AM

21 December 2019

9:00 AM

Hidden in the spectacular rugged mountains of the far north Flinders Ranges at Arkaroola is a climate story written in stone.

What were muds, silts and sands were compressed, pushed down and became so hot that they melted 1600 million years ago. Uranium was concentrated in these melts which solidified into a radioactive granite.

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