StoneTheCrows said:All good Dave
I learnt something from it.
Talking to some other members about some (possibly aussie military) slang or sayings.
Have you heard of CDF - we used to use it as a daily bit of our langauge in pussers.
Common Dog F**k - common sense
As in use your CDF.
You heard of that or use it in the Army?
Tathradj said:.
I really think it needs to rain a bit so every one can get out and about instead of
sitting around growling about a screen in front of them.
I've owned the cub and I use the snake and you definitely notice hard ground .Your hard ground must be soft mate.Or your just alot stronger. :Y: :beer:ctxkid said:when you use a Tyger, you don't notice dry hard ground layful:
Smoky bandit said:I've owned the cub and I use the snake and you definitely notice hard ground .Your hard ground must be soft mate.Or your just alot stronger. :Y: :beer:ctxkid said:when you use a Tyger, you don't notice dry hard ground layful:
Also I think we on the wrong thread.lol
Gibber is an aboriginal word for rock. They are usually rounded silica pebbles, many are from old river beds now dried up.Dave79 said:Anyone know what the origin of 'gibbers' is. As in the little iron stone rocks in the pilbara.
Yes, true that they can form by multiple methods. In some areas they are rounded and represent river pebbles, in others they are angular and consist of broken-up duricrusted surface (essentially palaeosol material, sort of old soil). The latter seems more widespread. In many cases both can apply (eg broken up from old river deposits that had been cemented at surface). As NASA says of the Sturt Stony Desert "The geology of the area is complex. Gently deformed and duricrusted Cretaceous Bulldog shale of marine origin form the gibber plain uplands of the Stony desert. Eocene and Miocene fluvial and lacustrine sediments have also been weathered and duricrusted" Fluvial = river, lacustrine = lake". Dating of the desert varnish on the river gravel gibbers has been used to date the minimum age of the rivers that formed them.Simmo said:Gibber, rock- and pebble-littered area of arid or semi-arid country in Australia. The rocks are generally angular fragments formed from broken up duricrust, usually silcrete, a hardened crust of soil cemented by silica (SiO2). The gravel cover may be only one rock fragment deep, or it may consist of several layers buried in fine-grained material that is thought to have been blown in. A gibber is generally considered a result of mechanical weathering because silica is almost inert to chemical weathering.
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