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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.
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 University of New South Wales (New South Wales) 11,856 5. The University of Queensland (Queensland) 10,042 Rank University Postgraduate - % of Total (2016) [2] 1.
Pages in category "Geology of New South Wales" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The majority of Sydney Basin is raised sandstone plateau, with the exception being the Hunter Valley and the low-lying Cumberland Plain.. Minor igneous activity took place in the basin during the Early Jurassic (i.e. 210 million years ago), Late Mesozoic (i.e. 100-90 million years ago) and Cenozoic eras (i.e. 65 million years ago).
The Griman Creek Formation is a geological formation in northern New South Wales and southern Queensland, Australia whose strata date back to the Albian-Cenomanian stages of the mid-Cretaceous. [1] It is most notable being a major source of opal, found near the town of Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. Alongside the opal opalised fossils are ...
Boolaroo Subgroup is a geologic formation in the Lachlan Orogen in eastern Australia in the Hunter Region.Formed in the late Permian, it is part of the Newcastle Coal Measures.
Moomba is the centre of South Australia's oil production in the basin. The geology of the portion of the Eromanga Basin in New South Wales remains under-explored. [3] During the middle of the Cretaceous period much of inland Australia was flooded by the Eromanga Sea, which shares its name with the contemporary Basin.