Shoalhaven District Geology

FIELD GEOLOGY OF THE SHOALHAVEN DISTRICT   (PART 24) This is the end of the book! Scroll down for the beginning or click here:   https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/1515863000684737715/1996628405451350047 CHAPTER 16 : References and Glossary References   Andrews EC: “Report on the Yalwal Gold Field” (Min.Res.NSW, 9) 1901  Branagan DF and Packham GH: “Field Geology of NSW” (Science Press) 1967  Card GW and Jaquet JB: “The Geology of the Cambewarra Mountain, NSW” (Rec.Geol.Surv.NSW, 8, 261) 1903  Harper LF: “The Geology of the Gerringong District” (Rec.Geol.Surv.NSW, 8(2) 94) 1905  Harper LF: “Geology and Mineral Resources of the Southern Coalfield” (Geol.Surv.NSW Mem 7) 1915  Nashar B: “Geology of the Sydney Basin” (Jacaranda) 1967  Packham GH (Ed): “The Geology of NSW” (J.Geol.Soc.Aust. 16 pt 1) 1969  Paix JG: The Geology of the Shoalhaven Shire” (Shoalhaven Shire Council) 1968  Taylor TG: “Sydneyside Scenery” (Angus and Ro...

FIELD GEOLOGY OF THE SHOALHAVEN DISTRICT (PART 23) CHAPTER 15: THE CLYDE RIVER VALLEY T aking its rise at an elevation of 2,500 feet near Sassafras, this small river flow south and descends by way of a great canyon to a level of 200 feet at Yadboro. It does this in less than 20 miles, yet it is a further 40 miles to the sea downstream. This is a peculiar result of the dip of the Shoalhaven group sediments. At one time, these must have extended further south than at present. When the area was uplifted, it was tilted to the north, so that the ancestral Clyde River had to erode its bed against this trend.  This undoubtedly led to the formation of many waterfalls and the evolution of the canyon upstream from Yadboro.  The southern edge of the sandstone scarp presents a bold face and is broken into numerous outliers. Some such as The Castle and the Pigeon House are well known to bushwalkers, but there are many others. They all have a similar structure, being capped by cliffs of the...

FIELD GEOLOGY OF THE SHOALHAVEN DISTRICT  NSW AUSTRALIA (Part 1)   John G Paix 1970 (Reviewed 2013) ©  Australian Field Geology Club visit to the Cambewarra Range February 1965   A Word or Two of Explanation This book was written in the years 1968-1970. At the close of my time as a Science teacher at Nowra High School in 1967, I undertook to write a report titled " The Geology of the Shoalhaven Shire " for the then Shoalhaven Shire Council, which was published by them early in 1968.  It soon became apparent that there was much additional information, especially relevant to the Geology excursions I had conducted during my 5 years in Nowra, which was not included in that book.  What you see in front of you today was prepared for publication over the next three years and I fully expected to see it published in 1970. For reasons that do not matter at this distance in time, this never happened. I was left with a typed, proof-read copy, all the maps, drawings, p...