NB: Post July 2010, updates of this file are only at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/JohnByrnes.htm
JOHN GRAHAM BYRNES
Associates: LachlanHunter Associates (mainly geologists and others ex the Mines Department); and also associated with "Elves" and bushlovers (the Elvina Group) and assorted archaeologists and historians ; as well as a Maroota heritage project and with reconstructing the likely development of the Nepean-Hawkesbury river system (sometimes called 'Great Lost River' project, connecting Castlereagh, Maroota and other places).
Address: PO Box 121, Burwood, NSW 1805.
This is a file showing personal information and interests of John Graham Byrnes, a Sydney geologist born on 5 November 1944 to Doreen and Mostyn Byrnes; and later living at Turramurra (one of the Sydney 'North Shore' suburbs, plus various places in Sydney's Inner West suburbs (Ashfield, Croydon, Strathfield). John has worked for the Commonwealth, the industry, a large coal and energy information service, and briefly for others - but mostly he worked for the NSW State Government, from which he is now retired, in the Mines Department (Geological Survey and policy/information branches)..
Where raised .... Turramurra (this is the back yard and the sandstone wall built by my father Mostyn, being his finest bit of sandstone work).
If the world wearies and society does not satisfy, there is always the garden.
At St Pius X in Sixth Grade (Source: Original copy owned by Jon Williams)
At school (centre of photo); St Pius X College, Chatswood. 5th Year, 1961.
Graduation day at UNSW, Kensington. Mother (Doreen Steiner) to left, grandmother (Janet Graham) to my right.
The music playing, Enya's River Music, Orinoco Flow - is maybe able to remind us of the flow of time, and hence the universal flow of all things - the way it is, the thusness of all, or as some might say core non-duality :
A GREAT LOST RIVER TEACHES? TEACHES US WHAT? -
The Orinoco River is certainly not lost but there is evidence that the flow path of Sydney's greatest river might have gotten lost or 'confused' over time (due to such influences as uplift of the Blue Mountains, and the inwards progress or coastal streams, with their headwater 'capturing' (disrupting/turning) previous waterway paths. Trying to reconstruct the path of any great 'lost' or much modified river over time can at the very least teach us investigation skills. But like much of geological investigation it might also teach or induce other things like feelings and realisations of awe and wonder at the length, magnitude and pervasiveness of change, etc.
IT IS THOUGHT: Over forty million years ago a great river flowed across the "Sydney" region, from beyond Glenbrook and via Maroota to somewhere unknown where it greeted the sea at a coastline that no longer exists. Everything changes but this very flow maybe continues today, and could be the Nepean - Hawkesbury. Or maybe not? Could there be errors or flawed thinking in how we conceive that the Earth and everything developed? Who knows? Interpretations change. Everything changes.
But also, all things remain linked, and are connected. Geology, together with archaeology, studies and interprets the past, and how things came to be the way they are. We each can add a little to the picture but never will know everything. Life presses on always, tiny wombat step by tiny wombat step. As it should. Think good thoughts, care for the people. Do public service. Be generous and open. Stop the killings, stop war, and learn to cooperate. Do not cling too hard to blind dogma. Let go of whatever you need to let go of. Go with the flow. Abandon the Dark side and cross to the Light. And may the force be with you as they say in the Star Wars movies. Whatever this Force may be. Look for the truth and believe the best. Thus endeth the introductory sermon, so read on ....
JOHN GRAHAM BYRNES
John's principal interests have been in fossils, history of the earth, coal, gold, copper, minerals policy and mining history; as well as in systems of information dealing. His Master of Policy Studies degree at University of NSW concentrated on the optimisation of the acquisition and accessibility of government-held information on geology and mining (and to a lesser extent on mine safety policy).
One thing worked at over quite some time was the quality assessment and improvement of minerals exploration and prospecting reporting (click here to see how reporting was done in 1999). He currently specialises in the world of coal (e.g. Hunter Valley), being principally occupied with mine and deposit information. John's Master of Policy degree studies concentrated on the optimtisation of the acquisition and accessibility of government-held information on geology and mining.
John's ancient life interests have focused on coelenterates, receptaculitids and the formation of coal seams. He is interested in both carbonate and coal petrology, and in palaeoecology and environments of deposition of (e.g. corals reefs, peat bogs, rivers, etc.).
John worked mostly for the NSW government, which employed most or all of its geologists originally in the Mines Department (subsequently known by various other names - Department of Mineral Resources, and later amalgamated with agriculture etc. as Primary Resources). John began work at Sydney's Geological & Mining Museum (which did a good job over many years for the general public and especially for schoolchildren, but was unfortunately discontinued after government lost interest in promotion of geology). He later on worked as the department's Senior Information Officer (scientific information), in the policy and ministerial support section (as Minerals Executive Officer), in coal geology (Southern Coalfield) and in regional geology (Northwest Region). Particularly interesting was metallogenic mapping in the Bourke-Cobar-Nymagee region. He maintains interest in geological and mining history/heritage both for New South Wales and elsewhere (e.g. Sydney Mines, Canada). Since 2005 he has been interested in researching mines and coalfields history for Russia (e.g. see working compilation on the Donbass region), Australia, Canada, Colombia, Venezuela and Indonesia; as well as in Sydney region general geology (especially the evolution of the Nepean-Hawkesbury River system). The lastmentioned interest is shared in particular with fellow LachlanHunter member Tessa Corkill who is the driving force in 'Maroota Sands heritage project'. This project seeks to gather, and disseminate (on CD), information about the area of Maroota Sand (considered likely to be the oldest preserved remnant of Nepean River transported sand).
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A few places currently of interest:
The following is more or less a random selection of various places of interest. For an alphabetical sorting of places by place name see "Geo sites" at geo-sites.htm
(1) Box Head, Bouddi National Park.
- There's some very interesting tree-like concretions here. (My gatherings = under "GOSFORD" at
http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/geo-sitesG.htm
)
(2) "Grants Castle" (local name), Lane Cove National Park.
- A quite small geological feature (sandstone prismatised persumably by an igneous body).
(My gatherings = under "PYMBLE, Near DeBurghs Bridge - Lane Cove River, columnar sandstone." at
http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/geo-sitesP.htm
)
(3) The Devil's Horns, north of Tibboburra
- Tree-like silcrete pillars. (My gatherings = I have gathered information on there, but not uploaded to
web)
( This is a well-enough known site, but not ?yet a tourist site, I suspect ..??).
(4) Fennel Bay fossil forest north of Toronto
- An important Permian fossil forest horizon, preserved by volcanic ash, traceable to the coast at Catherine Hill Bay
( My gatherings = http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/fennell-bay1.htm
)
(5) Upper Castlereagh area (just north of Penrith)
- A very historic area, including a find by Fr Eugene Stockton of what was thought formerly might be the oldest stone tools site in Australia
( but subject to some debate .. are the finds artefacts or 'geofacts').
(My gatherings = under "CASTLEREAGH, Upper Castlereagh - Ancient Aboriginal site?" at
http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/geo-sitesA-C.htm
)
- Also see the "Castlereagh Talks" = http://www.geo-sites.zoomshare.com/files/Castlereagh-5Sep09-talks.htm
- And collected 'unsorted' snippets on the area = http://www.geo-sites.zoomshare.com/files/castlereagh-pen-snippets.htm
(6) The Pinnacles, south of Broken Hill
(My gatherings about here = I have gathered information on there, but not uploaded to web).
(7) Mount Drysdale, north of Cobar
(My gatherings = I have gathered information on there, but not uploaded to web).
(8) Glenbrook, reported 'Aboriginal' stone mounds
- My gatherings = under "GLENBROOK" at http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/geo-sitesG.htm
(9) Elvina track, West Head promontory, Ku-Ring-Gai National Park
- My gatherings about one aspect of this place (i.e. how do snames form) = http://geo-sites.zoomshare.com/files/snames-range.htm
(10) Gunderbooka mountains, west of Bourke
(My gatherings = I have gathered information on there, but not uploaded to web).
(11) Mount Oxley, east of Bourke
- My gatherings = within http://geo-sites.zoomshare.com/files/mystery-mounds.htm
(12) A lookout rock, much visited but currently un-named, at Little
Switzerland Drive, Kings Tableland (Blackheath), Blue Mountains.
- Telling / discerning The History of One Rock !
= http://members.iinet.net.au/~john.mail@ozemail.com.au/WF-wedding-rock-hist/WF-wedding-rock-hist.htm
(12) Jenolan Caves - Materials available from Ted Matthews.
= http://members.iinet.net.au/~john.mail@ozemail.com.au/TM-Jenolan/ted-matthews-jenolan.htm
(13) "SWANSEA
& SOUTH" - Geological
and Mining History of the Swansea or Wallarah Peninsula area
= http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/Swansea-CHB.htm
Some topics interest:
(1) The effects of heat (Some mineral and stone products and effects known from surface heatings)
= http://geo-sites.zoomshare.com/files/soil-slag-clinker.htm ( continuing to update at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/soil-slag-clinker.htm )
Another index file - webspace at iiNet, formerly Ozemail
= http://members.iinet.net.au/~john.mail@ozemail.com.au
GENERAL INTERESTS - Information - acquisition, preservation and accessibility.
( Government acquisition of information from exploration and mining - a student review essay on the policy of such, 2000).
INTERESTS - Links to family history and former places
INTERESTS - Fossils
Long dead
spiders are quite friendly and never bite. This little critter, preserved down to the detail of minute hairs, is far superior to the
preservation of most fossils, many of which are just impressions left in
sediment by body parts (This one is the 1 mm long type specimen of Orchestina
albertensis from Grassy
Lake near Lethbridge in
Alberta; ca. 75 million years old. Described by Dr. David Penney in the January 2006 issue of the
journal Palaeontology).
Preserving good spiders needs good trees (to make the sap that becomes the amber that can preserve insects for so many millions of years). If we have the fossil spiders, where are the fossil trees?
Certainly some of them still reside, petrified, around the Yellowstone National Park. Here a much-exaggerating old timer supposedly once reported finding: "Peetrified birds a sittin' on peetrified trees a singin' peetrified songs in the peetrified air. The flowers and leaves and grass was peetrified, and they shone in a peculiar moonlight. And that was peetrified too." (The fanciful geological reporting from early mountain men, for which style Jim Bridger is renowned. This followed the discovery of amazing petrified forests in the Yellowstone region in the 1830s. Bridger also reported the geysers of the area.)
Seeing that many of the Yellowstone region gigantic petrified stumps (likely relatives of the modern day Sequoia or giant redwoods) may 'outcrop' along the ridge edges of spectacular deep valleys (like here) it was indeed very handy if, as the old-timer reported, due to some geological peculiarity the air too was quite solid and petrified in this area. This meant that one could ride one's burro straight across any chasm, to view a stump close up, after it had been sighted in the distance. Such field conditions could benefit palaeontology anywhere.
Closer to home John has been interested in how the Fennell Bay Fossil Forest near Toronto, one of Australia's earliest recognised petrified forests, has been viewed, recorded and studied over time. The missionary Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld in the 1830s recorded that the local aboriginal tradition was that the trees were people turned to stone: "Kur-kur-kur-ran. The name of a place in which there is almost a forest of petrifications of wood of various sizes, extremely well defined. It is situated in a bay in the N.W. extremity of Lake Macquarie. The tradition of the aborigines is that formerly it was one large rock, which fell from the heavens and killed a number of blacks, who were assembled where it descended, they being collected together in that spot by command of an immense iguana, which came down from above for that purpose. In consequence of his anger at their having killed lice by roasting them in the fire, those who had killed the vermin by cracking were previously speared to death by him with a long reed from Heaven ... When the iguana saw all the men were killed by the fall of the stone, he ascended up into Heaven, where he is supposed now to remain, and they point out the stars which they say represent his form in the sky."
Associations
Lachlan Hunter Associates - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/index.html (formerly http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com - a now discontinued host)
Interests ( grouped categorically, with links):
ARCHAEOLOGISTS:
GEOLOGICAL AND MINING INTERESTS:
Gold -
Discovery of gold (NSW), and early gold mines - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/gold-discovery-rush.htm
Museums -
Geological and Mining Museum (updating version) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/mining-museum.htm
A SENSE OF (ANCIENT) TIMES:
If seemingly not "at home", please look for me in the Silurian (c. 400 million years ago):
The Silurian is my favorite "time" - geological period - in New South Wales
(Photo: Jenolan Caves - study by Geological Survey, present contact Ted Matthews )
TIMES PAST:
The Silurian period -
Quick glimpse - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/silurian-quick-glimpses-1.htm
THE STRUCTURE OF THINGS:
Big things -
Structure of the Sydney Basin - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/sydney-structure.htm
Small things -
Soft, small, syn-sedimentary (but perhaps associated with "mega-floods") - Wave Rock - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/wave-rock.htm
INVESTIGATIONS; THE PURSUIT OF LITTLE MYSTERIES:
The mystery of who dug the Knapsack Gully shaft, and why = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/knapsack-gully-shaft.htm
FOSSILS:
Palaeozoic corals -
Cladopora - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/cladopora.htm
Parastriatopora - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/parastriatopora-bed-jenolan.htm
BIG TREES - living and fossil / an index of 'big trees', mostly fossil but also the living giants -
Remarkable Big Trees (famous tree localities) - http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/Big-Trees/big-trees.htm
The living big trees (giant sequoia etc.) - http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/Big-Trees/big-trees8.htm
Fossil forests in North America -
Dry Creek Petrified Forest (Wyoming) - http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/Big-Trees/big-trees1.htm
Lund Petrified Forest (Nevada) - http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/Big-Trees/big-trees2.htm
Calistoga Petrified Forest (California) - http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/Big-Trees/big-trees3.htm
Petrified Forest, Arizona - http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/Big-Trees/big-trees4.htm
Yellowstone Petrified Forests - http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/Big-Trees/big-trees5.htm
Fossil forests in South America -
Argentina Petrified Forest - http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/Big-Trees/big-trees6.htm
Fossil forests in Europe -
Lesvos Petrified Forest (Greece) - http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/Big-Trees/big-trees7.htm
Fossil wood / trees / forests in New South Wales -
Fennell Bay fossil forest - http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/fennell-bay1.htm
Dudley Beach fossil trees - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/dudley-beach-foss-trees.htm
Sydney Region silicified wood - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/sil-wood-sydney.htm
Fossil footprints -
Fossil footprints at Currawong Road, Berowra Heights - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/currawong-rd-bh.htm
PEOPLE:
Early settlers -
Edward Powell (a founder of Liberty Plains, Strathfield/Homebush) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/edward-powell.htm
~ Powell's sheep stolen by Banditti, Homebush - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/aboriginal-banditti-lib-plains.htm
Geologists -
Tim Hopwood - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/tim-hopwood.htm
Geologists, notes and contacts - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/geologists.htm
Artists -
Jane Bennett, painter of industrial scenes and demolition, Breakfast Point - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/jane-bennett-artist.htm
Americana -
Belle Starr, bandit queen - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/belle-starr-short.htm
Ancestors -
Parents' marriage, I January 1944 - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/parents-marriage44.htm
Some of the below are close family history; some just collections of aspect of times, places and more general history.
Byrnes family (my father's family)
- Byrnes links - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/john-byrnes-ancestor-links.htm
The Byrnes'es at Upper Castlereagh:
- The Byrnes of Castlereagh [the farming Byrnes] - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/byrnes-of-castlereagh.htm
- First Byrnes family graves plot at 'old' Castlereagh cemetery - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/First-Byrnes-plot.htm
Samuel Byrnes = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/samuel-byrnes.htm (Samuel is writer's great-great-grandfather)
Ann Reffin (wife of the first of our Byrnes'es, David Burns/Byrnes in Australia:
- About the 2004 "Ann Reffin" commemoration held at Upper Castlereagh = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/reffin.htm
Planning a remembrance from Ann Reffin (200th year from arrival in Australia) [archived also at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/Ann-Reffin-remembrance.mht
Ann Reffin 200 year commemoration, planned and carried out in 2004 [ = "COMMEMORATION - ANN REFFIN (1783-1839) ARRIVED IN SYDNEY 200 YEARS AGO" ]
Mostyn Byrnes:
Byrnes children in the backyard at 43 O'Mara Street, Mayfield - Back row - Malcolm, Mostyn, Peg. Front row - Bob and Gwendoline (Gwen).
Mostyn's parents Janet and Arthur; with Gwen and her boys Chris and Stephen.
The young Janet Byrnes (née Graham) as a nurse in England.
Still later on - Mostyn and Malcom with their wives and their mother Janet (Also Jack Bebb, husband of Gwen who is likely taking the photo).
Byrnes family, family of Mosytn Arthur Byrnes, my father (default1.htm)
Mostyn's burial at Upper Castlereagh 2007 (order-of-service.htm) [original made 2007]
-- 2009 update of same webpage, on Byrnes at Castlereagh Wesleyan 'sacred acre' ( order-of-service-castlereagh.htm )
Arthur Gervin Byrnes, father of Mosytn (arthur-byrnes1a.htm) [World War I years]
-- Arthur's WWI record - http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/arthur-byrnes5.htm
Worboys family - descendants of Augusta Worboys (augusta-worboys.htm)
-- This was commenced at Zoomshare but is now being updated only at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/augusta-worboys.htm
Grahams family (family of my paternal grandmother):
Info on Janet Graham and Scotland (janet-g-byrnes-fam.htm)
- Grahams at Girvan, Scotland - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/grahams-at-girvan.htm
Steiner family (my mother's family)
Doreen Phyllis Byrnes, my mother (doreen-phyllis-byrnes.htm)
Doreen's life (dp-byrnes-life.htm)
Clout family, Doreen's mother's family (the-clouts.htm)
- An index of Steiner stories - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/steiner-stories-index.htm
- Steiners and Germany (Christian migrates to Australia) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/steiners-germany.htm
- Christian Steiner family at Mulgoa/Camden - http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/steiners-mulgoa-camden.htm
- Christian Steiner family moved to Wagga Wagga - http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/steiners-wagga-wagga.htm
- Doreen Phyllis Steiner (née Steiner) - http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/doreen-phyllis-byrnes.htm
-- Life of Doreen Steiner - http://www.lachlanhunter.deadsetfreestuff.com/JB/dp-byrnes-life.htm
- [Family's earliest ancestor] The descendants of Ulrich Steiner - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/ulrich-steiner-descendants.htm
- Place of Christian Steiner in German ~ Eselshalden/Krähenhof - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/eselshalden-region.htm
POLITICS / PLANNING / POLICY STUDIES:
- Planning in Ku-Ring-Gai - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/planning-in-ku-ring-gai.htm
ENVIRONMENT:
Fish kills -
- Case of the giant Murray cod - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/upper-murrumbidgee.htm
EARTH COMMODITIES AND THE MINERAL INDUSTRIES:
Diamond -
Millions of diamonds were mined from Cainozoic placers across Eastern Australia:
-- A consideration of their geological origin (by Larry Barron) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/diamonds.htm
Gold -
Discovery of gold (NSW), and early gold mines - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/gold-discovery-rush.htm
The mystery of the "Hargraves nugget" - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/hargraves-nugget.htm
Oil and Gas -
Chemical industry along the Parramatta River - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/oil-gas-chem-parra-r.htm
Brickmaking and the clay-shale industries -
Brickmaking - Part 1 (earlier times and methods) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/bricks-part-1.htm
PLACES - The Big Picture (Australia-wide)
Is the Australian contintent tilting north -?- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/continental-tilting.htm
PLACES - Offshore features
Convergent lines off eastern Australian coast - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/convergings-offshore.htm
PLACES - Germany
Eselshalden and Welzheim region - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/eselshalden-region.htm
PLACES - North of China
Aeolian activity - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/north-of-china.htm
PLACES - NSW - Along the Parramatta River:
Luxury high density housing in Canada Bay LGA -
Cabarita, Cape Cabarita (Harmony Point), Exile/Canada Bays - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/parra-r-lux-housing.htm
Breakfast Point (former Mortlake gas works) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/breakfast-point.htm
Chemical industries - Part I - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/oil-gas-chem-parra-r.htm
PLACES - NSW - Sydney's Inner West:
In the days of Liberty Plains -
Report of Aboriginal banditti in 1809 - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/aboriginal-banditti-around-lib-plains.htm
OTHER NSW PLACES:
Blue Mountains -
Natural history and heritage -
Sun Valley - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/sun-valley.htm
Berowra Heights -
Currawong Road (the history of Hatfield hill) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/currawong-rd-bh.htm
Breakfast Point (Mortlake) -
Modern development on site of former major gasworks - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/breakfast-point.htm
Canbelego -
Canbelego scrapbook - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/canbelego-scrapbook.htm
Canbelego in Mines Department Annual Reports - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/canbelego-md-ann-reps.htm
Castlereagh -
Water mills on the Nepean River - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/castlereagh-water-mills.htm
Quarrying and archaeology - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/Castlereagh-5Sep09-talks.htm
Cobar region geology and mining -
Cobar index (this file) = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/cobar-index.htm
Cobar's mining history = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/cobar-mining-history.htm
Cobar 1:250K sheet references = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/cobar-refs.htm
The Cobar Belt of mineral deposits = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/cobar-belt.htm
The Canbelego Belt of mineral deposits = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/canbelego-belt.htm
The Girilambone Belt of mineral deposits = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/girilambone-belt.htm
Glenbrook - Emu Plains ( ''Lapstone Monocline front" of Blue Mountains plateau )
The mysterious Knapsack Gully shaft = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/knapsack-gully-shaft.htm
Rev. W. Hessel Hall and the great lost river ('Lapstone River') = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/hessel-hall.htm
Gosford area highlights
Narara and Kariong (Bambara Rd, Bulgandry, Bob's big circles) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/narara-research-station.htm
Homebush Bay -
Homebush Bay = http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/homebush-bay.htm
The Powell's Creek wetlands - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/powells-ck-wetlands.htm
Merrylands West -
Land along the Finlayson's Creek drainage - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/merrylands-west.htm
Strathfield LGA -
Greenacre quarry and dyke - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/greenacre.htm
Sydney region, 'great lost river' (GLR) -
Rev. Hessel Hall and the GLR - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/hessel-hall.htm
Glenbrook exposure, GLR - (under construction)
TALKS:
The Castlereagh Talks, Heritage Week, 2009 -
Talks location, program, etc. - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/Castlereagh-5Sep09-talks.htm
Dr David Branagan, considering "the Edge" - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/castlereagh-talks-branagan.htm
Talks at Narara Research Station which were organised by Peter Adderley on 10-10-10
The 10-10-10 visit to Narara Research Station - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/narara-research-station.htm
GOVERNMENT GEOLOGY IN NSW (Re: GSNSW):
Short guide to finding information via the Geological Survey - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/geol-surv-nsw.htm
GEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY ; MINING/QUARRYING ; HERITAGE:
[Listing] NSW GEODIVERSITY, GEOLOGICAL AND MINING/QUARRYING HERITAGE
- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/nsw-geo-min-quarrying-her-sites.htm
THE NSW HERITAGE SYSTEM
Heritage listing deletions - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/heritage-deletions.htm
BLUE MOUNTAINS HERITAGE
Lapstone and the lost river - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/bm-heritage-lost-river.htm
Sedimentary dyke 'intrusion' at Lapstone railway station - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/sed-dykes-lapstone.htm
CANTERBURY LGA HISTORY AND HERITAGE
Wolli Creek Valley -
Wave Rock - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/wave-rock.htm
GOSFORD LGA HISTORY AND HERITAGE
Vertical iron oxide concretions at Box Head near Gosford - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/box-head-concretions.htm
Big circles hear Staples Lookout - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/bobs-big-circles.htm
Excursion of 10-10-10 to see various sites - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/narara-research-station.htm
POLICY STUDIES:
Minerals and mining policies -
Re the acquisition of information from exploration and mining - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/mpe.htm
SILCRETE
Maroota silcrete - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/maroota-silcrete.htm
GEOLOGICAL AND OTHER INTERESTING PLACES
An attempted alphabetical listing (NSW esp. Sydney region) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/geo-sites.htm
OTHER GEOLOGICAL TOPICS (some are of general or worldwide phenomena)
Effects of heating (at surface, not igneous)
Baking and fusion - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/soil-slag-clinker.htm
Features seen especially in sandstone areas (esp. Hawkesbury Sandstone) --
Circular features (mixed origins, relatively recent) -
Circular features seen in sandstone country - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/simple-circles-ss.htm
Circular features between Kariong and Woy Woy (featuring large circles pointed out by Bob Pankhurst)
- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/bobs-big-circles.htm
The more linear features -
Weathering runnels - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/runnels.htm
Linear crack weathering (associated with polygonal weathering) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/linear-crack-weathering.htm
Older (diagenetic influences) -
Ironstone banding (commonly called Leisegang banding) - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/iron-liesegang.htm
Vertical iron oxide concretions at Box Head near Gosford - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/box-head-concretions.htm
Polygonal weathering -
Polygonal weathering - http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5737284/polygonal-weathering.htm