Field trip to Newcastle and Hunter Valley

New South Wales, Australia

Photos copyrighted 2002 by Don Chesnut, unless otherwise indicated

Newcastle, Redhead Beach

• Permian fluvial sandstone and surf
• Permian fluvial sandstone
• Permian fluvial sandstone
• Permian fluvial sandstone
• Dadoxylon tree trunk in Late Permian Newcastle Coal Measures
• Sea cliff: Triassic fluvial sandstone at top, Late Permian overbank strata in middle and Permian fluvial sandstone at base
• Permian leaves and stems from overbank deposits
• fallen Triassic boulder, fluvial sandstone
• Permian leaf, Glossopteris-Gangamopteris flora
• Permian leaves, Glossopteris-Gangamopteris flora

Hunter Valley

• Lindeman's Winery

Milbring Quarry near Milbring

• large Permian fenestellid bryozoa impressions, also found were
• Permian Branxton Formation

view of Blue Mountains on return to Sydney

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