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Tight folded very thin red chert layers sitting on pillow basalt
Kinabalu UNESCO Global Geopark2023
UNESCO World Heritage
Tight folded very thin red chert layers (130 million years old) sitting on pillow basalt (greyish blue) exposed on a narrow gorge along Sungai Baliojong River in Tandek, Kota Marudu. This rock sequence represents an ancient oceanic crust from the proto-South China Sea lithosphere.
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- Title: Tight folded very thin red chert layers sitting on pillow basalt
- Creator: Kinabalu UNESCO Global Geopark
- Date Created: 2023
- Location Created: Malaysia
- Location: Malaysia
- Date of Inscription: 2023
- Category of Site: Global Geopark
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