Dear All,


Somebody not too long ago asked where fossils could be seen near Sydney.

I think the replies were along the lines of looking in the Narrabeen Group
along the coast and somebody else also suggested a shale exposure near
Epping or Eastwood?

Was anything ever found near Epping? I think I posted that I thought it
was unlikely, even though there was once a very large brickpit there.

Currently there is a new deep excavation into Ashfield Shale happening on
the southern side of
Parramatta Road immediately west of the entrance to the Western Freeway at
Strathfield. The shale is being trucked away to somewhere. Wherever it is
being taken to might be somewhere that fresh Ashfield Shale could be
examined at leisure or in comfort (since the bottom of the excavation is
rather hectic with machinery, and you are very unlikely to be permitted
down there I would think?).

But much more interesting is the chance 'discovery' on a creationist
geology website of a photo of two 'standing trees' in the top of the
Narrabeen Group (called the Terrigal Formation around Gosford) on the
northern side of Broken Bay, at the eastern side of Box Head.

The two objects seem to be solid cylinders and quite regular in shape; not
the irregular iron oxide shells that occur commonly in Triassic sandstones
and which sometimes vaguely resemble trees.

If these vertical objects in the sandstone are not trees then I don't know
what they could be. They sure look to be interesting objects!

The URL is
http://www.creationontheweb.com/images/creation_mag/vol25/252trunkhawkesbury
.jpg


Kind Regards,



Dr John G. Byrnes

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