Hi Albert,


Thank you; I think this is pretty common, that people forget where things
come from.

I still haven't paid my Club membership fee I'm afraid. I'm supposed to be
part-retired and have plenty of time for things like that but still it
seems I don't get around to doing heaps of things. Likewise I've been
intending to join Concord Lapidary Club .. so that I might have somewhere
to cut/slice a rock ever now and then but week after week goes by that I am
intending to do that without actually getting it done. I was "spoilt" with
the facilities of 'Mines Department' in the past, especially access to
literature. Since the pulled out of Sydney and the good geology library
has shifted to Maitland I find it pretty difficult to follow any sort of
geological interests. I'm also currently interested in Ashfield Shale ..
and various other quarries all around Sydney .. and am finding it pretty
amazing about how little facts/memories are preserved on many of them (of
if there is information it is by no means easy to come by .. I'm trying all
the local historical societies).


Cheers,




John



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At 07:59 AM 8/8/2006 +1000, you wrote:

>Hi John,

>I went in to the Lachlandhunter site and saw that the geological time
scale at the beginning was prepared by Associate Professor Stephen S. Gao.
Last year I contacted Prof Gao about the time scale and ask permission to
use it. His reply was that he took it off the web and used it for his
lectures. He does not remember where he got it from or who drew it. Maybe
your group might like to alter the time scale caption to avoid copywrite
problems. Just a thought.

>Regards
Albert