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Image No. 10-77

Landscapes -- Geological Feature -- Cape York Peninsula

Huge granitic rock pile (tors)

Mt. Simon, "Black Mountains", near Annan River, south of Cooktown, Queensland

1959

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Dark crusts are mainly lichens. Scattered species of rainforest occur in crevices, e.g. Figs (Ficus spp.). Origin of bare rocks on this scale, without soils, is still debated.
Also found at Cape Melville.

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