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The Department of Mines commenced in late 1874, and the Geological Survey of New South Wales was brought into existence on 1 January 1875. Charles Smith Wilkinson was its first supervisor. In the 1950s to 1970s the administering body for mines was the New South Wales Department of Mines or New South Wales Department of Mines and Agriculture.
Pages in category "Geology of New South Wales" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. ... Sydney Basin; Sydney sandstone; T. Terrigal Formation; W.
Scheibner E. 1996–1998. Geology of New South Wales – synthesis. Geological Survey of New South Wales Memoir geology: 13 (2 v.) AUSTRALIAN LITHOSPHERE Clitheroe G. et al. 2000. The crustal thickness of Australia, Journal Geophysical Research 105: 13,697–13,713. Hillis RR & Muller RD. (eds) 2003. Evolution and dynamics of the Australian Plate.
The Hunter–Bowen orogeny was a significant arc accretion event in the Permian and Triassic periods affecting approximately 2,500 km of the Australian continental margin.. The Hunter–Bowen orogeny occurred in two main phases: The first being Permian accretion of passive-marginal Devonian- and Carboniferous-age sediments, occurring in the Hunter region, as well as the mid-west region of what ...
Exposed Ashfield Shale of the Wianamatta group, by the Pacific Highway, Chatswood, Australia. The Wianamatta Group is a geological feature of the Sydney Basin, New South Wales, Australia that directly overlies the older (but still Triassic in age) Hawkesbury sandstone and generally comprise fine grained sedimentary rocks such as shales and laminites as well as less common sandstone units.
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight , a coalition of Australian research-intensive universities.
Historic Sandstone Sydney. Adelaide: Rigby. ISBN 0-7270-1342-4. Branagan, David F.; Packham, Gordon H. (2000). Field geology of New South Wales. Sydney: New South Wales Department of Mineral Resources. ISBN 0-7313-9222-1. Broadbent, John; Sydney (NSW) Council (2010). Transformations: ecology of Pyrmont peninsula 1788–2008. Sydney: City of Sydney.
The geography of Sydney is characterised by its coastal location on a basin bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the east, the Blue Mountains to the west, the Hawkesbury River to the north and the Woronora Plateau to the south. Sydney lies on a submergent coastline on the east coast of New South Wales, where the ocean level has risen to flood deep ...