Dear All,
The Australian museum paleo staff have looked at the
gosford site which did exist in a rail corp ballast
quarry north of Gosford. I have been told that there
is nothing left there, but you never know. The fish
from the quarry was written up in memoirs of the
Geological survey of NSW. Palaeontology Memoirs 1895?
By woodward. the site is also brefly mentioned in Paul
Willis book Digging Deep time.


The fossil dealer in Gosford is Martin Rosser of
Willyama AKA Geodiscoveries.

Rodney

--- "john.mail@..."
<john.mail@...> wrote:


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Hi Chris,

I still haven't joined the Fossil Club.

I want to but I am awful with filling in forms and
snail-mailing anything. If you, or my secretary,
would do that part for me I'll hand over the cold
cash.

As for Gosford I have never been to it yet myself but
am told that it is very close to the railway station
and that the fossil bed was near the base of the
quarry ... I suppose just a bit above the level of
the railway line.

Who owns the quarry now and what the exposure there is
like I have no idea of.

The quickest way of determining these things would be
just to hop on a train and go and have a look I think.

I've written to Gosford Council about it but they are
unaware of anybody at all being intereted in it.

There, however, is at least one local man, Peter
Adderley at Gosford who is very interested in geology
- AND there is also a gem and mineral and fossil
seller/displayer in the area (sorry I do not know the
name) AND somebody else told me there is a woman
locally who is interested in the question of whether
any more fish may remain unbattered and pristine there
at rest in their shaley bed ... but again am sorry to
say I do not have here name either.

The Mines Department (now merged with Forests and Fish
and Ag as Primary Industries) has a service called
"Ask Bill the Geo" ---- ask any geological question to
the service (it's on their webpage) and the wheels may
grind and a satisfactory answer perhaps be
forthcoming.

And regaring all your "so much more that i couldnt
even explain to you!" sites ... if you email any views
I'd be interested to maybe add them to the geo-sites
directory.

I think I'll be adding some more 'forms of
ferruginisation' pics and ideas ..... sure they aren't
fossils, but interesting to speculate on how they
formed anyway.

I'm interested in all the weird and wonderful ideas
the public has on how geological features form.

There is one man (known as Buzz) who maintains that
the polygonal weathering found along the plateau top
on Hawkesbury Sandstone is the actual
preserved/fossilised skin of the Rainbow Serpent.

Cheers,


John




On Fri Jan 18 11:50 , 'cows_300' sent:

Nice Info John,

Great site and Pictures, really interesting. I have
seen so many
different structures in the Hawkesbury Sandstone, its
such an
amazing formation...so much cross bedding, iron
stains, concretions,
spherical iron stained bedding plains and so much more
that i
couldnt even explain to you!

Thanks for the info and a great read!

When are you going to the fish quarry? i would love to
get in there
and have a look aswell, is it a part of the fossil
Club? when are
you planning on going?

Regards Chris

--- In fossilclubgroup@..., John
wrote:
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
>
> An excurion took place recently to see the fossil
trees
photographed in an
> article by creationist geologist Tasman Walker.
>
> The site is Box Hill, Bouddi Peninsula.
>
> The existence of the Box Head "fossil trees"
structures was first
published
> on in 2003, including a photo of them taken by
Andrew Taylor.
>
> The cyclindrical objects photographed certainly look
like
> sideritised/haematitic trunks.
>
> However, many other vertical ferruginous cylindrical
structures
were found
> to be present in the sandstone there and from the
range of
features it is
> seen that they are definitely vertical concretionary
structures,
not trees.
>
> Photos may be see under "GOSFORD" at
>
http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/geo-sitesG-I.htm
>
> Still to be visited is Coal and Candle Creek on the
other side of
the
> Hawkesbury where a fossil stump was discovered by a
member of the
Fossil
> Club many years ago.
>
> The Coal and Candle Creek position (near the
tidewater limit) is
likely at
> the same or very similar stratigraphic level near
the top of the
Narrabeen
> Group and first guess would now be that it is
another
occurrence/exposure
> of these vertical ferruginous cylinders.
>
> I do not know of any other occurrences of similar
things in other
parts of
> the world .. does anybody else?
>
> Also planned for 2008 is a revisiting of the famous
fossil fish
beds at
> Gosford. I've never been to that quarry myself yet.
It is known
as Blunts
> Quarry.
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
>
> John Byrnes
>
> (LachlanHunter Associates, Sydney)











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