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Driving north towards Outback South Australia and Ilkara-Flinders Ranges National Park. The park\u2019s mountains have been looming over the horizon for the last 100km, slowly revealing their shape and structure. At first a dark hued haze on the horizon before the orange folds and laminations of the rock were close enough to catch my attention, like I knew they would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within the park, the Ediacaran Golden Spike has been carefully placed here to mark a visible change in Earth geological epochs. The dramatic change in the colour of the strata from dark brown to a pale yellow is significant in ways an appreciate but am not expert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Driving north towards Outback South Australia and Ilkara-Flinders Ranges National Park. The park\u2019s mountains have been looming over the horizon for the last 100km, slowly revealing their shape and structure. At first a dark hued haze on the horizon before the orange folds and laminations of the rock were close enough to catch my attention, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/img_3358-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2586,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions\/2586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianmergard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}