Hi John,
I have uploaded 2 papers on Tasmanian trilobites in the files
section. Hope this will help.

Regards
Albert



--- In fossilclubgroup@..., John <john.mail@o...>
wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 John wrote:
>
> >I've uploaded an image to the miscellenous photo album. It is of
a
> collection of Jurassic log sections found last week in the far
south
> of Tasmania by Peter Harris. The trees were conifers perhaps
> araucariads related to Wollemi Pine.
>
> >So far no showpiece trilobites or dinosaur bones but we're
working on it.
>
> >Regards
>
> >John Newlands
> ex NSW now Tas
>
>
>
>
> Dear Fossilclubgroup,
>
>
> I must greatly apologise that I have neither sent off my
subscription fee
> yet for Club Membership nor an intended detail response to John
who has
> also sent log photo/info to me. I ask for more indulgence till I
do this,
> ?soon.
>
> As I probably noted by way of introduction, one of my "pet"
interests is
> trees, viz.
> http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/Big-Trees/big-
trees.htm
> which is a survey of big tree localities worldwide).
>
> I recently discovered, while attempting to tap into the knowledge
of those
> who know Catherine Hill Bay far better than I, and/or live
thereabouts,
> that there seems to be a quite significant (for geology anyway)
layer of
> standing fossil trees, or petrified forest if you like, just close
below
> the Great Northern Seam.
>
> As far as I am yet aware, nobody before has recognised or
described this
> tree-bearing interval (which would be withing the Awaba Tuff) - I
found
> out that a snorkeller saw a big standing log in the underwater
cliff face
> at Catherine Hill Bay some thirty years ago and it turns out also
on more
> enquiry that NPWS have known about fossil stumps visible at low
tide on
> Ghosties Beach just south of the Bay.
>
> Geologist Sir Edgeworth David (1907) reported seeing good fossil
trees near
> Quarries Head (or else at Stinky Point?) and at the "Government
Quarry"
> near there, where he recorded that some are up to 10m in length.
I'll
> certainly be interested, some time, to try and retrace David's
steps
> thereabouts.
>
> There's well known fossil forest exposures at Swansea Heads and at
Fennel
> Bay on the western side of the Lake. I know of some other fossil
log
> mentions ,,,, for Stockton (VERY large, one hundred feet in
length), near
> Freemans Waterhole, at West Wallsend, etc., but I expect I
certainly would
> have nothing like a full and comprehensive list of all occurrences
yet.
>
> As I get fresh new snippets of interest (new to me but not
necessarily to
> others who might already know of such) I tend to upload them ...
and
> http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/enchanted-
professor.htm is
> recent example of such. It is about somebody (maybe a local
Swansea
> resident?) who appears to have paraphrased David's 1907 writings
into an
> article. You can see there some more 'modern' geologists
following David's
> steps on the "sandy beach below the pilot station" and headed for
the
> fossil trees.
>
> That particular excursion is by the Geological Survey which was,
and is,
> the same living entity that was David's old outfit in the 1880s
when he did
> his immense undertaking of coalfields survey - A fine feat which I
think in
> particular kicked off the great 1920s mining boom of the Greta or
South
> Maitland coalfield.
>
> I suspect that many or most of the fossil tree locations we might
know or
> learn of today were already known to David, with the possible
expception of
> the Catho-Ghosties one.
>
> With Best Regards,
>
>
>
>
> John Byrnes
>
> (Geologist, Strathfield)
>