Palaeomagnetic evidence for periods of intense oxidative weathering, McKinnons mine, Cobar, New South Wales

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2009

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Smith, Martin
Pillans, Bradley
McQueen, Kenneth

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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The McKinnons gold mine, ∼35 km southwest of Cobar in New South Wales is a non-operational opencut mine with extensive regolith profile development down to a depth of ∼80 m. Twenty-three oriented paleomagnetic samples, from saprolite at different leve

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Keywords: gold mine; Miocene; Paleocene; paleomagnetism; remagnetization; virtual geomagnetic pole; weathering; Australasia; Australia; Cobar; McKinnons Gold Mine; New South Wales Cobar; Eegolith; McKinnons mine; New South Wales; Paleomagnetic poles; Weathering

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Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

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2037-12-31