Interesting information, if anyone finds out whether its possible to
collect fish there be sure to post it on here! mabey the F.C can
have a field trip there!


--- In fossilclubgroup@..., Rodney Berrell
<rod_rex@...> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
> I have an orriginal report on the fossil from that
> Railway ballast quarry at Gosford, If you give me some
> time as i am currently in the Mt Isa Field Office
> I can email a PDF to you.
>
> Also i recently purchased a fish from Picton of the
> internet but no details came with it, do you know of
> any fish localities in the picton area?
>
> Fossils from Sydney are becomming harder to source if
> any one has any they would like to sell... please let
> me know.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Rodney
>
> --- John <john.mail@...> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi Rodney,
> >
> > Yes I am aware that people have been there since the
> > 1800s and have looked.
> >
> > But I don't know of any reports on the site.
> >
> > Or if the originally published drawing of the face,
> > and stratigraphic
> > labelling, allows for the fossil-bearing lens to be
> > recognised today .. or
> > allows for any reasoning that it was totally
> > extracted (i.e. cannot extend
> > further into the hill), or if there are any other
> > railway cuttings nearby
> > that show anything.
> >
> > Major reason I don't know is that I haven't been
> > there yet.
> >
> > It seems that it could be a relatively very easy
> > site to get to .. being
> > right near a station on a railway line with quick
> > train from Sydney.
> >
> > I tried asking from Council about it .. in case of
> > any access restrictions
> > .. but could find nobody at Gosford Council who had
> > ever heard of "Blunts
> > Quarry".
> >
> > There is also a much bigger quarry at Gosford, near
> > (SSE of) the Court House.
> >
> > This was the sawn stone quarry of the Hawkesbury
> > Sandstone Co.
> >
> > They moved out of Gosford because of the increasing
> > traffic congestion etc.
> > making it not a good place any longer for operating
> > a quarry ... and maybe
> > also because they were approaching the edge of their
> > leaseholding, but I
> > don't know that for sure.
> >
> > And the company also changed its name from
> > Hawkesbury Sandstone Co. to
> > Gosford Quarries.
> >
> > I'd guess the fish horizon would be somewhat below
> > the floor of the quarry
> > near the courthouse .. which quarry faces are still
> > accessible and luxury
> > highrise housing has been built in that quarry too.
> > Again I haven't been
> > there, to that quarry either .. and have merely seen
> > photos of the new
> > housing development there.
> >
> > Martin Rosser had been interested to go on the
> > excursion to check out the
> > "fossil trees" that were published on originally in
> > the creationist
> > journal, at Box Head in Bouddi National Park, but I
> > don't think he was able
> > to make it on the day choosen.
> >
> > If there is anyone interested in the fossil trees of
> > Fennel Bay I am hoping
> > to do more on that this year and would like to
> > combine effort with anyone
> > interested ... please see:
> >
> >
> http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/fennell-bay1.htm
> >
> > Note also the story of a connection with a Giant
> > Goanna spirit which came
> > from Heaven and killed people (petrified them to
> > what we call the fossil
> > trees?) as punishment for them having killed lice.
> >
> > It may be difficult at this point in time to work
> > out why killing lice is
> > so bad as to be a mortal sin.
> >
> > But the wording is as recorded by early missionary
> > in the area and he seems
> > to have been an assiduous records-maker.
> >
> > He had set out to record and study the local
> > language of Lake Macquarie,
> > then called Awaba Lake.
> >
> > As I have written at fennell-bay1.htm, "When the
> > missionary L.E Threlkeld
> > in the 1830s recorded the tradition about an
> > immense goanna or iguana it likely suggested nothing
> > in particular.
> > Nowadays it may remind one of the Megalania".
> >
> > The Megalania was three times the size of a modern
> > Komodo Dragon and almost
> > certainly lived contemporaneous and in the same
> > areas as humans and could
> > 'punish' humans mortally (eat them for example!).
> >
> > But can the megafauna be "remembered" in any way
> > 'culturally'.
> >
> > Is it possible, or proven anywhere in the world,
> > that cultures can preserve
> > genuine memory/record of vanished life forms as old
> > as the aussie megafauna?
> >
> > As yet I have not seen any 'proven' cases of this
> > sort of thing, from
> > anywhere.
> >
> > But there's plenty of speculation about (as Googling
> > will show *S*). And
> > quite likely persons like Mr Rex Gilroy and other
> > 'cryptozoologists' are
> > still having sightings of the giant lizard (and UFOs
> > too?) in the Wattagan
> > mountain ranges west of the Lake. Rex has probably
> > got dinosaurs in this
> > backyard and finds footprints of them in the
> > sandstone.
> >
> > I wonder how many are interested in that sort of
> > thing compared with
> > 'orthodox' palaeontology?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> >
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
> > At 06:50 PM 2/02/08 -0800, you wrote:
> >
> > >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:
> >
> >
> >
> > >---------------------------------
> > >
> > >
> > >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
> >
> === message truncated ===
>
>
>
>
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