Pit N Thesis · thesis-4-3
Geomorphological setting of Pit N
The Pit N view is dominated by an anthropogenic open-pit landscape—excavated benches or walls, haul access, spoil and exposed working surfaces—with residual natural low hills around the operation. Calling the entire scene a natural geomorphic unit would erase the process that now controls slope form, drainage and exposure.
SOURCE-LED TECHNICAL READING
Geological interpretation and evidential boundary
The Pit N view is dominated by an anthropogenic open-pit landscape—excavated benches or walls, haul access, spoil and exposed working surfaces—with residual natural low hills around the operation. Calling the entire scene a natural geomorphic unit would erase the process that now controls slope form, drainage and exposure. The image is most useful for separating inherited terrain from mining modification and for showing why present topography cannot be used uncritically to infer pre-mining depositional or structural geometry.
- Source
- Private thesis source vault · Chapter IV record
- Location in source
- PDF page 72
- Image quality
- Standard
- Record ID
- thesis-4-3
