To: James Hall Strong, james_hall_strong@...



Hello James,

I am interested in getting these too, as I've been trying to compile little
by litte all sites of geological interest around Sydney.


Cheers,



John Byrnes


(Geologist, Sydney, Australia)





~~~~


Hello... I recently borrowed a copy of the booklet "Finding Fossils in
Sydney" (1987) by Peter Watson, and I note that it is partly based on
another booklet by Peter, "How to Find Fossils in Sydney"... are
either of these works still available, through the club or elsewhere?

Thanks,
James :)

Hello... I recently borrowed a copy of the booklet "Finding Fossils in
Sydney" (1987) by Peter Watson, and I note that it is partly based on
another booklet by Peter, "How to Find Fossils in Sydney"... are
either of these works still available, through the club or elsewhere?

Thanks,
James :)

Hello Everone
I have replaced the 2006 Tucson Fossil pictures with the 2007 ones.
Hope you all like it. I have archived the 2006 pictures and if anyone
wants to see it please let know.

Albert

Hi All.
i have just moved to queensland to begin my honours on fossil fish
from the winton formation,
does any one know any localities near brisbane, for instance i heard
of a quarry near Ipswich that produces plant material.


Thanks

rodney

Hello All

I will be deleting the 2006 Tucson Mineral and Fossil Show pictures
soon and will replace them with this year's pictures. If you have not
had a chance to look at some of the good stuff there please do.

Albert
Moderator

--- jill harrison <jillyonly1@...> wrote:

> To: fossilclubgroup@...
> From: jill harrison <jillyonly1@...>
> Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:46:23 +1100 (EST)
> Subject: Re: [fossilclubgroup] A labyrinthodont
> walked this way - At Macquarie Fields.
>
> Just a little piece of rock (one of many) found at
> Mulbring with the Fossil Club in 2006. Make great
> gifts!
> Jill Harrison
>
>
> Send instant messages to your online friends
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Just a little peice of rock (one of many) found at
Mulbring with the Fossil Club in 2006. Make great
gifts!
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Hello,


Here is another site further to the list of interesting fossil sites around
Sydney, some of which people have discussed or mentioned in previous posts.

The information can be downloaded:

Title: A Labyrinthodont Trackway from the Mid-Triassic near Sydney, New
South Wales.

Download via eprint.uq.edu.au/archive/00002179/

The track imprints of the critter's feet are clear enough to define the
direction of travel vector.  That's very good, except that they don't then
seem to have stated it!

The authors Julian Pepperell and Gordon Grigg were both apparently
zoologists at the School of Biological Sciences, University of New South
Wales.  That would possibly be in what is now called
"BEES" (after geology and biology were amalgamated at UNSW).

The authors as you can see did a wonderful job of interpretation although
they apparently forgot to give any location diagram or locality
description, things that are highly essential in almost all cases.

The direction the animal travelled in cannot be read off their location
map/plan because they gave none.  They do inform us at one point in the
text that old Laby exited stage 'right' on this occasion, but as they don't
tie this into the direction of the compass, or anything else, it doesn't
help much.

The trackway was as casts of the footprints but they don't mention the
thickness or grainsize of the casting medium bed.  If it was very thick or
significantly coarse then it would cast some doubt on whether this was
really in Ashfield Shale or not.

Anyway, I'll try to contact the Metropolitan, Sewerage and Drainage Board
or whoever they are nowadays and to see what record they may have of the
matter.

As for other labyrinthodont tracks around Sydney there is also said to be
some exposed in the basement of the winery at South Maroota, as I might
have noted previously.  This is mentioned in tourist pamphlets but with no
photos.  I'll see if there is any objection to them being photographed, and
if not then try to take a photo or two if I can go there.

Best Regards,



John Byrnes

Hi All,
i have recently heard that the fossil fish found in
shale at Epping Boys high school near marsfield, has
now been coved in that concrete spray material, so no
more can be collected, i have also heard that the
fossils recovered from tamborine bay is now no longer
available, because no shale is left.

Thanks

rodney



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Hi,


This (Strathfield excavation) is not a fossil site ... i.e. nothing has
been found there, but I'd be pretty certain nobody has looked either.

It is as I mentioned before, a large current excavation into fresh Asfield
Shale - many metres deep and must be for a place intending to have
multi-level subsurface car parking.

I've got the address more accurately now.   It is at Parramatta Road on the
corner with Cooper Street, and the excavation extends back from Parramatta
Road towards the next parallel street which is Hilts Street.

Being quite deep and narrow I strongly suspect the developers will be very
OHS-sensitive about anyone going there though .. however I've noticed that
it doesn't work at all on weekends, when inspection of the shale would be
quite easy if allowed.  Over half of the excavation has by now been
concrete lined and is useless, but the bit at the Parramatta Road end is
still chewing away merrily and breaking up great chunks of shale, as you
can just barely glimpse over the top of the fence.

In a different area of Sydney, the quarry at East Wahroonga which produced
a small fishmany years ago is reached from the northern end of Clissold
Road ... walk east from there downslope along a dirt track leading down to
Lovers Leap Creek.  I presume the quarry is long defunct and I have not
been there for years but it used to have lots of shale spoil still around.
There used to be a crusher operated there.  The "kid" who found that fish
later went on to become a geologist, by the name of John Love.

Another feature of interest near there is polygonal jointing of the type
seen at West Head and around Gosford, and a convenient example is
immediately north of the retirement village (old school site) on the
eastern side of Grosvenor Street.

Besides labyrinthodont footprints at Berowra people at Maroota do say that
somebody local there has them under his house of something like that
(presumably a known/recorded site?).  They have also been reported at
places north of Broken Bay and someone thereabouts only quite recently
mentioned to me that he is soon going to search again for tracks or
anything interesting along the coastal exposure at Kincumber.  Photos I've
seen from thereabouts could be 'something' but didn't look terribly
convincing.

Regards,


John Byrnes





~~~~~~~~~~~

At 11:25 AM 1/28/2007 -0000, you wrote:

>Hi Jill
>
>Thought I would through in my two cents worth here, having spent a
>while looking for fossils in and around Sydney.
>
>Firstly, good fossils are few and far between and its a matter of
>checking every excavation that you can and its a then a matter of
>odds, luck and ability to identify the right signs.  I always carry
>around a hard hat, fluro vest and boots so that if I see a site I can
>put on the fafety gear and ask if I can look around.  You get a lot
>of knockbacks but sometimes you get lucky, especially if you are only
>asking to look at rock dumps and not work face areas.  Turning up at
>knock off time often worked as well.
>
>A lot of operators are paranoid about OH&S or that you will find an
>aboriginal relic and have their site closed down.
>
>Some actual sites I'm aware of and are probably not listed elsewhere
>include:-
>
> - A friend of mine was shown fish fossils from an oval excavation at
>a school around Epping, I'm pretty sure it was Epping Boys High.
>
> - I found fish fossils and some cartlige shark fossils at the cnr of
>Pennant Hills Rd and the M2 during its construction.
>
> - I found another nice complete fish at Baulkham Hills in brick
>quarry leftovers and some Unios nearby in some rubble being dug up to
>lay a water pipe
>
> - I also found a large piece of conifer at Leighton Pl, Hornsby at
>an excavation for a factory
>
> - other plant fossil locations are numerous but few of the specimens
>would make it into a display cabinet.
>
> - A work friend found a fish fossil at Horsley Park in Western
>Sydney while digging for a fence post.
>
> - I've heard that Labyrinthodont footprints were found at Berowra
>during construction of a home and were not formally identified untill
>15 years after they were reported to the museum.
>
> - The Hornsby Heights Quarry is a shale lens in sandstone and had a
>mortality layer of fish near its base.  Much of it is still there but
>buried under about three meters of huge boulders, put there by the
>Quarry mamager to stop people comming in after hours.  The odd fish
>was found at other levels in the quarry.  It is now part of a public
>reserve.
>
>Great fossils will be dug up and destroyed or reburied in Sydney
>tomorrow but almost no one is looking. It is up to us enthusiasts.
>
>Do you have a copy of the old Fossil Club publication "Finding
>fossils in Sydney" Compiled by Peter Watson ?  While it is small it
>gives a good overview.
>
>
>Regards
>Paul

Hi Jill

Thought I would through in my two cents worth here, having spent a
while looking for fossils in and around Sydney.

Firstly, good fossils are few and far between and its a matter of
checking every excavation that you can and its a then a matter of
odds, luck and ability to identify the right signs.  I always carry
around a hard hat, fluro vest and boots so that if I see a site I can
put on the fafety gear and ask if I can look around.  You get a lot
of knockbacks but sometimes you get lucky, especially if you are only
asking to look at rock dumps and not work face areas.  Turning up at
knock off time often worked as well.

A lot of operators are paranoid about OH&S or that you will find an
aboriginal relic and have their site closed down.

Some actual sites I'm aware of and are probably not listed elsewhere
include:-

  - A friend of mine was shown fish fossils from an oval excavation at
a school around Epping, I'm pretty sure it was Epping Boys High.

  - I found fish fossils and some cartlige shark fossils at the cnr of
Pennant Hills Rd and the M2 during its construction.

  - I found another nice complete fish at Baulkham Hills in brick
quarry leftovers and some Unios nearby in some rubble being dug up to
lay a water pipe

  - I also found a large piece of conifer at Leighton Pl, Hornsby at
an excavation for a factory

  - other plant fossil locations are numerous but few of the specimens
would make it into a display cabinet.

  - A work friend found a fish fossil at Horsley Park in Western
Sydney while digging for a fence post.

  - I've heard that Labyrinthodont footprints were found at Berowra
during construction of a home and were not formally identified untill
15 years after they were reported to the museum.

  - The Hornsby Heights Quarry is a shale lens in sandstone and had a
mortality layer of fish near its base.  Much of it is still there but
buried under about three meters of huge boulders, put there by the
Quarry mamager to stop people comming in after hours.  The odd fish
was found at other levels in the quarry.  It is now part of a public
reserve.

Great fossils will be dug up and destroyed or reburied in Sydney
tomorrow but almost no one is looking. It is up to us enthusiasts.

Do you have a copy of the old Fossil Club publication "Finding
fossils in Sydney" Compiled by Peter Watson ?  While it is small it
gives a good overview.


Regards
Paul

Hello,


I've no idea when I'll be able to take a walk out to Box Head in order to
look at the two 'trees' shown in that photograph referred to, or whatever
they are.   And I'm actually intending to first go and try to find that
creek 'stump' site which John Newlands knows about.

However I've just checked with Gosford council and they know nothing at all
about them.

They do have some 'fake' Egyptian engravings on sandstone near Gosford I
was informed.  However there's nothing 'fake' looking about these prominent
vertical objects photographed in the sandstone at Box Head.

This section of coast has been examined/mapped by geologists in fairly
recent times I would think, and hence I think it would be a very curious
thing indeed if such objects (of about person-height?) had escaped previous
detection/notice/comment (apart from being noticed of course by creation
geology).

Cheers,


John Byrnes

From: rod_rex

To: fossilclubgroup@...

Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 8:19 PM

Subject: [fossilclubgroup] Re: Fossil sites near Sydney

Hi There All.
I recently purchased some fossils from an old collection which had some
locations on the labels of fossil sites in Sydney. I did a bit of
exploring and looked at an old quarry in Hornsby Heights, although i
dident find any fish fossils, i did find some plant material including
a Horsetail plant fossil which is quit nice. other localities worth a
try include long reef and Turimetta head on the coast.

its a bit disapointing that the former quarries of sydney that produced
so muxh fossil material are now biuld over, or used as rubbish tips.

for more sites in and around sydney try.

Willis and Thomas, 2005. Digging up deep time. ABC Books

Thanks

Rodney

Thankyou Rodney, I will add that to my list of information Jill
Harrison

Fossilies

I should acknowledge that the photo of the Tasmanian amphibians was
taken by its discover Bob Tyson.

I copy pasted the article on the Box Head 'logs' to the Files section
as I had to hunt around for a while in the archives of the journal
linked to by John Byrnes.

You always want what you can't get. Brisbane based NSWFC member Don
Eastwell and I just spent hours in unstable ravines and horizontal
scrub infested with leeches and tiger snakes. We were looking for
Cambrian trilobites allegedly near old tin mines on the Tas west
coast. Yass has more Palaeozoic marine fossils but over here the
problem is lack of roads, not so much private property.

Regards
John Newlands

Hi There All.
I recently purchased some fossils from an old collection which had some
locations on the labels of fossil sites in Sydney. I did a bit of
exploring and looked at an old quarry in Hornsby Heights, although i
dident find any fish fossils, i did find some plant material including
a Horsetail plant fossil which is quit nice. other localities worth a
try include long reef and Turimetta head on the coast.

its a bit disapointing that the former quarries of sydney that produced
so muxh fossil material are now biuld over, or used as rubbish tips.

for more sites in and around sydney try.

Willis and Thomas, 2005. Digging up deep time. ABC Books

Thanks

Rodney

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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Happy New Year everyone

That is a great picture of the two skulls of labyrinthodont
amphibians. Hope there are more finds. The fossilized tree stumps seem
to get bigger maybe one day someone will find a really gigantic one.

Albert


--- In fossilclubgroup@..., "janewlands"
<janewlands@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings
>
> I went into the lab location of the Hobart Museum to see how progress
> was going on the recently excavated Jurassic tree stump... still in
> pieces at this stage, though the discoverer reckons he has found a
> bigger tree four feet in diameter. However with their permission I've
> uploaded to the Miscellaneous photo album an image of an early
> Triassic  fossil. It was found in 2006 by bushwalkers on the east
> coast and consists of two skulls of labyrinthodont amphibians that may
> have resembled modern salamanders. Perhaps their waterhole dried up
> which sounds ominous for humans. Another one for the 'must find' list.
>
> John in Tassie
>

Greetings

I went into the lab location of the Hobart Museum to see how progress
was going on the recently excavated Jurassic tree stump... still in
pieces at this stage, though the discoverer reckons he has found a
bigger tree four feet in diameter. However with their permission I've
uploaded to the Miscellaneous photo album an image of an early
Triassic  fossil. It was found in 2006 by bushwalkers on the east
coast and consists of two skulls of labyrinthodont amphibians that may
have resembled modern salamanders. Perhaps their waterhole dried up
which sounds ominous for humans. Another one for the 'must find' list.

John in Tassie

hi all,
i am new to this web group. so to tell you all a bit
about my self, i am a palaeontological student at
macquarie university, going on to postgrad work in
2007 at univeristy of queensland.

what i am after is A Coccolepis fossil from talbragar
if any of you have one you would like to swap or sell
please let me know.

many thanks


rodney berrell

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Greetings

I've uploaded to the Miscellaneous photo album a picture of an
excavator removing the stump of a Jurassic tree, species unknown but
perhaps a Wollemia ancestor. It will be araldited back together at
Hobart Museum; interestingly some lateral roots are transparent and
brown like smokey quartz. More on that when it happens.

This weekend I'm going to Zeehan Gem Show with some others to look for
mainly Cambrian trilobites associated with abandoned mines. If I don't
disappear that could be yet another story.

Regards
John in Tassie

Hi everyone,

The Royal Society Digital Journal Archive, dating back to 1665 and
containing more than 60,000 articles, is now available online at
www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk and is FREE to access until the end of
November 2006.

You can access this from the URL below.

http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/
(zmzsm245p540sh45ejnzww45)/app/home/main.asp?referrer=default


e.g. If you type in the word trilobite* you will get all papers
dealing with trilobites.

Enjoy
Albert

--- In fossilclubgroup@..., "jillyonly1"
<jillyonly1@y...> wrote:
>
Hi Jill,
Here is what Ross Dearing comments about what John said in his reply
to you.

Albert, we visited the site some years back in conjunction with a
trip to Coonabarabran.  It is a reserve and one is not allowed to
collect from there.  Interesting that a trench is about to be dug
(depending on how current this information is), Ian Percival may be
able to tell us more on Thursday night.  The trips mentioned are
presumably Gondwana Dreaming which are expensive (I understand) and
you are not allowed to keep anything you find (we have picked up a
few members who joined after having been on a GD trip).  From
memory, NP&WS manages the site and will accompany visitors to it
(the site itself is on private property).

Albert Sequeira


> Hi everyone,
> I'm unable to go regularly to country digs with the Fossil Club,
which
> is disappointing, as I had a great long weekend at Yass last year
and
> a wonderful time at Mulbring with the Club. In Sydney the closest
site
> we have visited is North Avalon ...found some rock with fern
fronds.
> My question is: does anyone know of any sites within the greater
> Sydney suburban region (I live in Cremorne, not far from the Zoo)
> where you can still gain access legally, which of course excludes
> national parks. Someone told me that the brickworks site in Mobbs
Lane
> at Epping is still operable and permission may be given to enter
their
> site..I'll follow that up..Apparently so many sites have closed
down,
> but any information would be greatly appreciated.Thanks, and keep
> digging!! Jill Harrison
>

Hi Jill,

I suspect that the most prolific sites with lots of fossils in Sydney would
be garages of old geologists.

I think just systematically tracking down old geologists and asking them if
they had unwanted fossils would likely gather many.  Although they'd be
from all over the State of course, not just from Sydney.

I could possibly assist with what an old geologist looks like if any
assistance were needed for tracking those down.

Mobbs Lane ought to be Ashfield Shale and apart from the very rare finds in
the sideritic bands the Ashfield Shale is typically quite devoid of leaf
fossils or other remains (apart from some broken up carbonacous fragments
that are nothing in particular and rarely even resemble a leaf).

What about Wollongong, is that too far for you to get to?  The southern end
of North Wollongong Beach, immediately north of the point at Wollongong has
a cobble deposit which is more than half made up of silicified wood (or was
thus composed when a colleague of mine last visited it and informed me of
it .. and I imagine its still like that).  And not far inland from there
(and possibly as least partially the source of the coastal concentration),
on the flanks of Mt Keira, I do strongly suspect that there is a 'fossil
forest' horizon lurking somewhere.  For very large in situ stumps have been
reported to have been seen there, and lots of loose silicified wood too.
I've been trying to get the exact location of those stumps, to go there
myself.

In the greater Sydney region you'd probably have much greater likelihood of
finding plant fossils in the Bringelly Shale than the Ashfield Shale in my
opinion.  The Bringelly Shale even has very thin coal seams in places, just
centimetres thick (I've seen such in a quarry at Mulgoa).  You might get
some 'Thinfeldia/Dicroidium' bits in the Bringelly Shale, but again you'd
have to be lucky as I don't know any horizon where you'd say they were
commonplace.

There's a large brickworks, and I assume with quarry, right at Bringelly
itself and this looked like it was closing or had closed when I last passed
it by a couple of months ago (all the employee houses were up for sale).  I
don't think it would be rehabilitated or filled in yet, and neither would
it be working if the impression I got about it just driving past was right.
  So if its finiished but not yet being filled by rubbish that that might be
somewhere you could potter at will and not be in the way of any trucks or
anything.  That's all I know about it though, and I cannot think of any
other quarries in that condition/status around Sydney at the moment.  Most
of the Ashfield Shale brickpits were filled in years ago, apart from a
couple that were saved from infilling because the endangered Green and
Golden Bell Frog took up residence in them.  So if Mobbs Lane still has
fresh shale exposed its worth visiting anyway, even if you get no fossils
(99% likely) since there just aren't many other places you'll see the
formation freshly exposed (unless they put some tunnels through it ...
which will happen from time to time).

For people with sufficient passion and means for a long trip there's very
soon about to be another trench sunk across the famous fossil beds at
Talbragar to expose the stratigraphic section and take some samples etc.
Arrangements to visit that dig have to be booked in advance, and the
'greening Gondwana' people are organising that.  I presume the Fossil Club
knows about this .. otherwise I could probably find the details for anyone
interested.

Not too many good fossils very close to Sydney though .. sorry about that.


John Byrnes




At 02:01 PM 10/26/2006 -0000, you wrote:

>Hi everyone,

>I'm unable to go regularly to country digs with the Fossil Club, which
>is disappointing, as I had a great long weekend at Yass last year and
>a wonderful time at Mulbring with the Club. In Sydney the closest site
>we have visited is North Avalon ...found some rock with fern fronds.
>My question is: does anyone know of any sites within the greater
>Sydney suburban region (I live in Cremorne, not far from the Zoo)
>where you can still gain access legally, which of course excludes
>national parks. Someone told me that the brickworks site in Mobbs Lane
>at Epping is still operable and permission may be given to enter their
>site..I'll follow that up..Apparently so many sites have closed down,
>but any information would be greatly appreciated.Thanks, and keep
>digging!! Jill Harrison

Hi everyone,
I'm unable to go regularly to country digs with the Fossil Club, which
is disappointing, as I had a great long weekend at Yass last year and
a wonderful time at Mulbring with the Club. In Sydney the closest site
we have visited is North Avalon ...found some rock with fern fronds.
My question is: does anyone know of any sites within the greater
Sydney suburban region (I live in Cremorne, not far from the Zoo)
where you can still gain access legally, which of course excludes
national parks. Someone told me that the brickworks site in Mobbs Lane
at Epping is still operable and permission may be given to enter their
site..I'll follow that up..Apparently so many sites have closed down,
but any information would be greatly appreciated.Thanks, and keep
digging!! Jill Harrison

Hi everyone... I got stuck at work and missed our last meeting - I had
planned to share some American fossils from my modest collection, but
I'll bring them next time instead :) I'm really looking forward to the
upcoming trips, too.

I came across this article online: yet another case of closer
inspection of old collections leading to an entirely new interpretation:

Rumors of Dino Cannibalism Declared Greatly Exaggerated
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00000B95-6C57-1519-AA1E83414B7F0000

I remember this dino cannibalism idea figuring prominently in "Walking
With Dinosaurs".

Cheers,
James :)

PS: I just got a copy of "The Greening of Gondwana" - really enjoying it!

Hi Albert.  I just added a photo of Jeff Vaughan with a Lepidodendron
fossil we collected in Tamworth a few weeks ago but I put my name in
the wrong section.  Can you edit it to so the heading is "recent
find"  Thanks  Paul

P.S. I'm pretty sure its Leptophloeum australe and I hope to talk the
quarry owner into a field trip for the club

Hi Albert.  I just added a photo of Jeff Vaughan with a Lepidodendron
fossil we collected in Tamworth a few weeks ago but I put my name in
the wrong section.  Can you edit it to so the heading is "recent
find"  Thanks  Paul

P.S. I'm pretty sure its Leptophloeum australe and I hope to talk the
quarry owner into a field trip for the club

Hi John
Looks like dirty work but satisfying. Look forward to seeing the
pictures.

Albert


--- In fossilclubgroup@..., "janewlands"
<janewlands@i...> wrote:
>
> Hi all
> I've posted another pic to the miscellaneous album. Those legs are
> mine above a section of Jurassic log, possibly a once 30m tall
> araucariad. If this log can be saved from pilfering several tonnes
> will be excavated by machine and sections re-assembled at the
Hobart
> Museum.
>
> This site near Southport Lagoon, Tasmania has a lot of silicified
> material just lying on the surface, including araucariad wood and
> red-blue agate nodules with crystal vugs. There are fronds and
rarely
> cones of cycads. Shale horizons have leaf impressions.
>
> If this log makes it to civilisation I'll get pix of the excavation
> and its eventual display in the city.
> Regards
> John Newlands (ex NSW now Tas)
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Hi all
I've posted another pic to the miscellaneous album. Those legs are
mine above a section of Jurassic log, possibly a once 30m tall
araucariad. If this log can be saved from pilfering several tonnes
will be excavated by machine and sections re-assembled at the Hobart
Museum.

This site near Southport Lagoon, Tasmania has a lot of silicified
material just lying on the surface, including araucariad wood and
red-blue agate nodules with crystal vugs. There are fronds and rarely
cones of cycads. Shale horizons have leaf impressions.

If this log makes it to civilisation I'll get pix of the excavation
and its eventual display in the city.
Regards
John Newlands (ex NSW now Tas)