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INSIDE THIS EDITION Dunedoo: field trip report and geology The rock platform at Black Head Minutes from the Annual General Meeting
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Secretary: Albert Sequeira, secretaryfossilclub@yahoo.com.au Fossil Club of NSW Inc. C\- The Secretary, 2 Hugh Place, Kings Langley, NSW 2147 (04) 0287-9266 Minute Secretary: Albert Sequeira
Front cover picture: Glossopteris, Dunedoo
Photo by Alby Gamble Taxonomic Disclaimer: This publication is not deemed to be valid for taxonomic purposes.
Treasurer: Albert Sequeira (temp), treasurerfossilclub@yahoo.com.au Newsletter Editor: James Strong, (04) 05400030, james.h.strong@gmail.com Public Officer: Albert (Albie) Gamble, (02) 9651-1920 Field Trip Coordinators: David & Diana Hindmarsh, (02) 4234-1468 or 0414 383 076 dhindy@bigpond.net.au Webmaster: Albert Sequeira, fossilclubnsw@yahoo.com.au Website Address: www.fossilclubnsw.org.au
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IN THIS ISSUE President’s Report ..............................3
PRESIDENT’S REPORT
Field Trip To Dunedoo ........................4
Text by Gary Davies
Geology & Fossils of the Dunedoo-Coolah
I look forward to a new and exciting new year. The committee has been working hard to ensure that this year will be a good one. This year we look forward to our regular one day trips and longer trips which will include Gatton in Queensland and possibly a trip to Victoria. There are many more activities planned such as a talk by Ian Percival on Late Ordovician palaeontology, which may lead to a further trip to Fossil Hill and Trilobite Hill.
Region ..................................................5 Black Head Rock Platform Outing.....8 Guided Tour of the Black Head Rock Platform................................................9 The Crinoid Classifieds ....................10 AGM Minutes .....................................11 ACTIVITIES BULLETIN.....................20
I have worked on Polo shirts in light blue and club emblem since our AGM in November. Hopefully sizes and costs will be available soon. Once we establish shirts I will work on matching caps. I have noticed that when we make our selves known in country towns the locals often come up to us and let us know about fossils on their properties. This may lead to a further site for glossopteris fossils and fossil wood in Dunedoo. Apart from that we look smart and advertise the club. So when they are made available please buy one and help advertise our club. I only have to walk down to my local shopping centre with it on and I am often asked questions about the club. I would like to welcome all the new members to the club and invite you to take an active role. Come along to our meetings and voice your opinion. Have your say. Email me if you have any inquiries regarding the club: ldav9119@bigpond.net.au Everyone in the club should be receiving a bulletin each month to keep you informed of up coming activities. We also have a Facebook site (Fossil Club of NSW) which I encourage all members to join. On this site you can communicate with the club and get involved in discussions on fossils. I have placed many pictures of fossils found on our trips (without disclosing actual sites). Join the conversation
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and help solve member’s inquiries. I look forward to meeting many of you on trips and meetings this year.
FIELD TRIP TO DUNEDOO Text by David Hindmarsh 4th to the 7th October 2013, holiday weekend
With the arrival of Simon, Louise, Laura and Evie, an executive decision was made to return to the same location rather than head west for fossilised wood. Again good finds were made, although the temperature was rising and making life uncomfortable out of any shade. A great deal of material was split in the search for a good find. Some of the keener ones then drove to another nearby public road, finding much material with leaves, woody material and Vertebraria- root formations, in white bedding material, all within the road boundary.
Diana and I left the South Coast 8am Friday morning, arriving Dunedoo after 3pm, to be greeted by Peter, Corrie and Gary already at the Caravan Park. John and Sue arriving soon after, having travelled that day from Brisbane. All set up camp for the weekend. Jim, also coming from the South Coast, having lodgings at a local B & B.
Image: John & Corrie Image: The group on site Saturday had all heading up past Leadville (they found iron pyrites, not lead!), and into a quarry where Corrie and John soon found a large slab with a Horse Tail neatly presented- both sides intact. A lot of woody material was also collected. Not the leaf deposits as at other Dunedoo locations. Back to Dunedoo for lunch, meeting Alby and Marie in the Bakery, where else! The Fossil Club NSW
A full, successful day collecting required finishing with good company and excellent food at the local Bowling Club, where contact was made with a local, with new information on potential future sites. Sunday had a convoy heading West to our normal location, and a day in the country. Jim now knows how heavy a quarter ton of rock weighs! Especially when one has to carry it for a quarter kilometre, cross country! Luckily, he still has some friends!
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Louise showed great composure when coming eyeball to eyeball with a 1.5 meter Red Bellied Black Snake which retreated when Simon did a kangaroo dance toward it. This is a favoured club location where quality material may be obtained readily. Garry had us move along the fence line where, under the shade of several trees, a good amount of much darker coloured leaves and base material was collected.
fully satisfy John and Sue coming all the way from Melbourne (via Queensland).
GEOLOGY & FOSSILS OF THE DUNEDOOCOOLAH REGION Text by Alby Gamble
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Image: Simon & Laura Monday had us dispersing to our homes, with Alby, Marie, Jim and Diana and I stopping at the Mudgee Gemfest for a look-see. Contact was made with a local fossil collector who has access to some special material from the local area, including fruiting bodies, seeds and different plant leaves presented in each plate. A highlight of interest - he showed us some Trilobite specimens recently dug up within the town area!!! All made purchases and checked out the material that the various dealers had for sale, before heading home. Another great weekend in the country, but I am unsure how many more trips we can arrange to The Fossil Club NSW
The white claystone, a unit of the Dunedoo Formation which outcrops on Narangarie Road, Coolah is the same stratum that outcrops on Nott’s property near Dunedoo, albeit that Nott’s claystone is heavily stained by minerals, mostly iron oxides. Both outcrops are part of, and near the south-west corner of the Gunnedah Basin, the central section of the Sydney-GunnedahBowen (SGB) Basin system, which extends in an arc from Bateman’s Bay on the New South Wales south coast, through the Hunter Valley and northern NSW to Collinsville on the central Queensland coast and is wedged between the New England Fold Belt and the Lachlan Fold Belt. Most of NSW’s and Queensland’s coal deposits occur throughout the SGB Basin and are now also the scene of extensive coal seam gas (csg) exploration and development. The white claystone layer in the Dunedoo Formation is formed of compressed kaolin. Kaolin is commercially mined near Gulgong for use, among other things, as clay for fine ceramics, as a filler for cloth and paper and in the manufacture of paint. The Gunnedah Basin is a depositional sedimentary basin formed during the Permian and Triassic Periods. In other words it was a depression which gradually filled with sediments washed in from the surrounding
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country and from plant material growing in or near extensive swamps. There is evidence of Carboniferous and Devonian material at depth in some places throughout the SGB Basin, however the basal rocks appear to be from the Silurian Period. Most of the Sydney Basin was inundated by the sea during the Late Permian, forming marine deposits over the freshwater deposits (the coal measures) throughout the Hunter Valley and down the existing coast at least as far as Ulladulla. As New Zealand was still attached to the NSW coast during the depositional stage of the Sydney Basin, there must have been some low ground to the east of the current continental shelf, which allowed the sea to penetrate as far west as Scone. The coal measures in the Sydney Basin are, for the most part, overlaid by sandstone (the Hawkesbury and Narrabeen Sandstones) formed during the Triassic Period.
Image: Glossopteris It appears the Gunnedah Basin did not suffer the same fate, with no evidence of marine incursions until the formation of the Surat Basin during the Jurassic, approximately 100 million years after the formation of the Gunnedah Basin. The Surat Basin is the south eastern section of the Great Australian (Artesian) Basin (GAB) and overlays part of the Gunnedah Basin. Accordingly, all the fossils that are sort after in the Dunedoo-Coolah region are from land or freshwater origins. The Moorefield Road quarry at Coolah is actually in the Pillaga Sandstone strata of the The Fossil Club NSW
Surat Basin, formed during the Late Jurassic Period, some 100 million years after the deposition of the Dunedoo Formation. FOSSILS The most common fossils to be found in the Gunnedah Basin, and hence at both Narangarie Road and Nott’s property, are the glossopterids. In this article, I can do no better than to quote from Ross Dearing’s piece in the 2007 1st Quarter issue of The Fossil News: The Glossopteridales are an extinct group of seed ferns that arose during the Permian on the great southern continent of Gondwana. They were the dominant part of the Gondwana flora through the Permian, becoming extinct by the end of the Triassic. Glossopteris is the largest and best known of the Glossopteridales with over 70 known species from India alone and others from South America, Africa and Antarctica as well as here in Australia. The name is derived from the Greek “gloss” meaning tongue and “pteris” meaning fern and was applied to a leaf in 1822 by Brongniart which actually turned out to be a Lepidodendron. It wasn’t until 1830 that the name was used to describe what we now know as Glossopteris. The name is a bit of a misnomer as the leaf shapes vary from short and broad to long and narrow with tongue shaped, lanceolate, oval or shapes in between. The blade may taper towards the stem, bulge out into a heart shape or end in swallow tails. The essential character of the Glossopteris leaves is the presence of cross connections between lateral veins resulting in a mesh like pattern. Where there is a mid-rib, the leaf is classified as Glossopteris. Where there is no mid rib but the meshing pattern exists, it is called Gangamopteris and where there is no mid rib and few cross connections
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between the veins it is called Palaeovittaria. The mid rib in Glossopteris is in fact not a single vein but a stranded structure of a number of veins. Sometimes the veins are sufficiently close together that they appear as a single vein. In others they are more widely spaced and visible as multiple strands. In the Late Carboniferous and the earliest Permian, ice sheets covered a large part of Gondwana and indeed much of what would be Australia. As temperatures warmed, the ice sheets melted and sea levels rose. Swamps formed in basins along “Eastern Australia” and Glossopteris dominated the swamps. Eastern Australia whilst now warmer remained in high, near polar latitudes and the winters were long and cold. Glossopteris was a deciduous tree, shedding its leaves in ‘autumn’ and this is nicely demonstrated in the fossil deposits at Kains Flat (near Mudgee and considered part of the Sydney Basin) where there is little sediment between each layer of leaves. The roots, called Vertebraria, because of their resemblance to an animal backbone, had a segmented core to enable the plant to overcome the problem of living in water saturated mud. Whilst there are excellent fossils of the various parts of glossopteris, there are none of a complete tree intact. Best guess is they were a large shrub or small tree with trunks up to 4m in height. Mary White devotes a whole chapter to the glossopterids in her book “The Greening of Gondwana” and there is a reconstruction diagram on page 108 as well as many excellent photographs showing the characteristics of the species.
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Species found in NSW include G. browniana and G. caudata, both found at Dunedoo.
Another interesting and beautiful fossil, particularly from the Narangarie Road site is the conifer, Walkomiella australis, featured on page 123 of “The Greening of Gondwana”. It is believed by some palaeontologists that early conifers evolved from the glossopterids during the Permian. At Narangarie Road, Walkomiella is represented by leaf fronds, some with cones at their tips and outlined in purple.
Image: Walkomiella australis with Glossopteris leaves Phyllotheca (horsetails) are also quite common at Narangarie Road and less common at Nott’s property. Horsetails are true survivors. They were prolific during the Permian, survived the
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mass extinctions at the end of the Permian and Cretaceous Periods, and are still represented today by a few species.
After a quick lunch we drove down to the Black Head rock platform, Gerroa, and made our way along the back of the platform. In the cliff and on the platform itself there were numerous brachiopods. The dominant brachiopods were Ingellerella and Spirifer. In some places there were dozens of them. Unfortunately due to wave action and vandalism many were damaged. We were not allowed to remove fossils from the platform or cliffs at this point. After walking 300 metres we turned north and made our way back to where we had started. To the north of this point there were many boulders at the back of the beach that contained brachiopods. We were told that we could remove these since they would be washed out to sea. The fossils found were mainly moulds and whole calcified casts. They occurred in the tuffaceous sandstones (Shoalhaven group) that were derived from the many submarine volcanic flows that occurred in this area back in the Permian time. Alby found a crinoid stem. Other fossils that occur in the sandstone include pelecypods, gastropods and bryozoans.
Image: Walkomiella australis, close-up
BLACK HEAD ROCK PLATFORM OUTING Text by Gary Davies I arrived at David and Diana’s place around 9.30 from Sydney. I was lucky to have caught them as they had just returned from a trip to Albion Park. After unpacking, I was taken for a quick tour around Gerringong. Shortly after Peter and Corrie arrived, followed by Richard, Alby and Marie.
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Image: brachiopod Sunburnt and tired from collecting we returned to David’s. We walked around the corner to Ken’s place (a member of the Illawarra Gem and Lapidary Club) to view his mineral collection. Ken had a garage full of many museum type specimens he had collected over the years. A further short walk took us to Ken’s brother in law Murray’s old model car museum. Again this was outstanding. That night we had dinner at the Fisherman’s Club were we met up with Kerry, Michael and their sons. They had driven all the way from
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Canberra that afternoon. Corrie, Peter and myself were very fortunate to try David’s daughters massage chair. Peter fell asleep in the chair while it massaged him. On the Sunday we gathered again at David’s and several other members and visitors arrived. There were 18 members and 3 visitors to listen to Albert give a talk on classifying and naming of specimens. A great two days was had by many and I would like to thank David and Diana for their hospitality and Albert for his talk. I was fortunate enough to be able to stay at David’s Saturday night.
others being Murramarang, South Durras and Lake Conjola. Phil Smart was our guide for the afternoon, that being low tide on the day. About twenty members of the public took part, including many children. Phil was instrumental in the forming the Gondwana Coast Fossil Walk at Ulladulla Harbour some years ago. Incidently, the former Abalone Processing building used by that group was destroyed by fire late last year in an arson attack, along with many fossils on display. Wandrawandian Siltstone deposit 273 – 269 Ma All the starters met at Gerroa - Seven Mile Beach, being given an introduction to how this part of Australia was formed, the breaking up of Gondwana, and what life was like at that time, some 270 million years ago, with South Eastern Australia then being about 80 degree South Latitude and a sea water temperature of about 5 degrees.
Image: On the platform.
GUIDED TOUR OF THE BLACK HEAD ROCK PLATFORM Text by David and Diana Hindmarsh National Parks of New South Wales - A guided tour of the Rock Platform at Black Head, Gerroa, South Coast, on Tuesday, 14th of January, 2014. This outing was one of three planned for coastal rock platforms during the summer holiday period by the Nowra National Parks office. The The Fossil Club NSW
Hand outs were given dealing with Earth TimeLines, layering of sediments and volcanics, and what type of fossils occurred during the Early Permian period: bryozoans, crinoids, brachiopods, horn corals, gastropods, bivalve molluscs and trace fossils. All drove to the nearby Black Head where we were led onto the rock platform to see many well preserved crinoid stems, brachiopods, gastropods and trace fossils - worm burrows, etc. Many excellent preserved Spirifers are visible on the rock platform. Discussion took place on the rate of erosion of the local coast line, and the composition of the layers that were being degraded or resisting the action of the ocean. At Gerroa, while there are many dropstones of varying sizes, there does not appear to be the number of Glendonites as at Ulladulla. All travelled by car to the Little Kiama Blowhole, to see the cooling formations of the
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local volcanics and a possible reasoning on the formation of this small blowhole. A visit to the well known Kiama blowhole, at the Lighthouse Point, further showed the volcanic history of the area, along with the highly visible lines of dykes, all in a general East-West orientation, and how the weathering of later volcanic material infilling these dykes has formed these exposures in the bedding material. All in all, an excellent low key introduction to the geology of this coast line as a starter for people, read children, to experience the world of fossils. Many thanks to Phil Smart and the team at Nowra National Parks for instigating these activities.
THE CRINOID CLASSIFIEDS Do you or your partner have too many fossils in their collection? I know my wife thinks so! Well why not sell some of them in “The Crinoid Classifieds”. It is a great place to all your fossils and paraphernalia to a selected audience. Not only can you advertise your fossils for sale, other pre owned treasures could also be advertised. If you advertise in the Fossil News, it would automatically be advertised on our website and the advertisement will go for 3 months until the next issue. Private Rates: $10 ¼ page - you supply the text and picture $15 ½ page - you supply the text and picture $25 Full page - you supply the text and picture Commercial Rates: $20 ¼ page - you supply the text and picture $30 ½ page - you supply the text and picture $50 Full page - you supply the text and picture
Image: The grandchildren
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MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING October 27th, 2013 Held at Parramatta-Holroyd Lapidary Club at 10.30am Committee Members present: Gary Davies (President), Jennie Hall (Vice President), Albert Sequeira (Secretary), , Alby Gamble (Public Officer), David Hindmarsh (Trip Co-ordinator), Apologies: Carrie Wang (Treasurer), Ron Williamson, Kathryn Smith, James Strong, Matthew West Invitees: Diana Brooks, Brian O'Reilly, Joan & Bill Zealey Minutes from the previous meeting: Minutes from the previous AGM Meeting held on 18th September 2012 was read and accepted. President Report: Accepted Again 2012-2013 has been a good year for the club. Committee members have tried their best to keep the club running efficiently. I would like to give a special thanks to the followingAgain to Diana and David for the fantastic field trips held throughout the year. We have visited Lake St Claire led by Rad Davies to look at Devonian fossils and glendonites, Jenolan Caves to look at corals, Belmont to look at insect fossils and glossopteris leaves, Mulbring and Cessnock to look at Permian marine fossils, Nymboida to see Triassic leaf fossils then onto Nambucca Heads and Bowraville to find fenestella. We also visited Yass but this time we saw Shearsby's Wallpaper and Wee Jasper Caves. Other activities included a talk from Robert Beatie on Talbragah insects and fish and a talk on fossil identification. It’s always hard to keep all members interested in field trips but new and older members have been well looked after by David and Diana. David and Diana are intending to go overseas so someone will need to step up and fill in for them during this time. Albert for his hard work as secretary. He constantly handles correspondence and looks after new membership. It is Albert that keeps the club running. Alby for the monthly bulletins to keep us up with what activities are being run each month. James has worked hard getting the magazine out to members. James is working hard at university on his degree especially his PHD and is finding it hard to continue doing the magazine. Someone will need to step up and take this on. To Carrie for maintaining our books and looking after all the clubs finances. She has done an excellent job. The Fossil Club NSW
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To all committee members who attended meetings and helped make decisions regarding the club. I like to remind members that the club seems to be run by just a few and we will need all the help that we can get. I urge you to get onto the committee and make a difference. There will be some jobs vacant and we will need your help so do not just sit back - get involved. I have been making inquiries about club shirts hats etc. I will present the information I have collected from a T-shirt Printing factory at Ingleburn called the Print Hutt. They are on line if you wish to have a look at their merchandise. I will present all costing to the next meeting with links to sites. Ever since I joined the Club, I have always wanted a club shirt. This is another way of advertising the Club. I had a T-shirt made with the Club emblem and members seemed to be impressed. Secretary Report: Accepted Another year has gone by – how times fly. It was a very hectic year for me as I thought retirement will bring me lots of time to enjoy the things I like doing. Not so – I am a lot busier than ever. I like to thank all the Directors and Committee members for their support and especially to James Strong (Editor) for taking time off from his busy PHD (Paleontology) study and work to produce the magazine. Carrie Wang our Treasurer has done a fantastic job throughout the year. The Club has sold two Fossil Kits to schools and I have been asked to do an exhibition at a school for Science Week – it all went well with a Certificate of Appreciation from that school. We also sold some extra fossils to one of the school with the kit – fossil poo is very popular. Not too long ago, we had a free Fossil Identification Course from the G&L Council – although it was not a full-on ID course we still got something out of it. As at 27-10-2013, there are 101 members (including children) for the 2013-2014 membership periods. In the last membership period of 2012-2013, we had 139 members. As you can see, there is a drop 28 in membership this year. Of the 49 members (listed as the principal contact), 43 have email address and only 6 have street mailing addresses. This shows more and more people are computer literate and using emails to communicate. Of the 43 members who have email address, only 17 have elected to have the magazine email to them. Treasurer Report: Accepted Our bank account balance as at end of June 2013 is $4045.84. This is 59.3% increase compared to $2540.30 in 2012. The major income & expenses are listed below: This year we had a slight drop in membership income, however, with the success in fossil kit boxes as well as the decrease of postage/printing expenses, 2012/2013 is still a very good year for the club.
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Field Trip Leader Report: Accepted David Hindmarsh read out the Field Trip Leader Report – He went through all the field trips throughout the year and highlighted some of the problems in certain areas and using alternate sites. All-in-all everyone was satisfied with the trips and had a good time. Web Master Report: Accepted The statistics on the web site for the year 2013 is more or less the same as last year. As you can see in the Monthly Access graph below, there are 174 Unique Visitors, which is slightly up from last year of 163. In the Pages Downloaded graph, 63 people liked our rendered picture of the Diprotodon. In the Web Page Access graph, 70 people wanted to know something about us and 62 people visited the Contact Page. The last graph shows the progress of our web site from 2005 to 2012. There was less activities in 2012 than in 2011 - maybe everyone is busy. Explanation on technical terms can be found in HOW TO READ YOUR WEBSITE STATISTICS REPORT on the web site under the How To folder. If members like to have other interesting things relating to fossils on the web site please email me at fossilclubnsw@yahoo.com.au. I have also included what pages people have viewed.
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Election of Office Bearers All position was declared vacant by the President - the newly elected Office Bearers for the 20132014 year are: President:
Gary Davies – motioned Albert, 2nd Jennie - Carried
Vice President:
Jennie Hall – motioned Alby, 2nd Albert - Carried
Secretary:
Albert Sequeira – motioned Jennie, 2nd Joan – Carried
Treasurer:
Albert Sequeira (Temp), Carrie Wang to do the paper work and Alby Gamble as a second signatory – motioned Jennie, 2nd Gary - Carried
Magazine Editor:
James Strong – motioned Gary, 2nd Albert - Carried
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Webmaster: (In lieu of Minute Secretary)
Albert Sequeira – motioned Jennie, 2nd Gary - Carried
Field Trip Co-ordinator:
David Hindmarsh – motioned Alby, 2nd Gary - Carried
Committee Members:
Diana Hindmarsh, Joan Zealey - Carried
Appointment of Officers Public Officer:
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20 THE FOSSIL CLUB OF NSW Inc.
ACTIVITIES BULLETIN MARCH 2014
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March 8th Saturday Field Trip – BELANGLO QUARRY – Glossopteris leaves and Vertebraria Contact David or Diana Hindmarsh (dhindy@bigpond.net.au or 02 4234 1468 or 0414 383 976) to register and receive latest information. Check email and/or phone before departure to ensure trip has not been cancelled due to weather or site conditions. March 30th Lecture - FOSSIL Hill and TRILOBITE HILL – Late Ordovician palaeontology in central NSW 10.30 am Parramatta-Holroyd Lapidary Club rooms, 73 Fullagar Road, Wentworthville Ian Percival, Senior Palaeontologist at the NSW Geological Survey and Fossil club member, will give a talk on Late Ordovician fossils from Fossil Hill and Trilobite Hill in central NSW, as a precursor to the field trip the following weekend. Plus • There will be the usual Show and Tell and Fossil Raffle, as well as a Lucky Door Prize. • Bring along fossils for identification and swapping. Cold BBQ chicken will be provided at a small charge. Please bring along a plate of salad and/or dessert to share. Please advise the Club Secretary (secretaryfossilclub@yahoo.com.au or 0402 879 266 for catering.
April 5th Saturday
Field Trip – FOSSIL HILL and TRILOBITE HILL – Late Ordovician fossils 8.30 am Centre of town, Cowra Participants should plan to stay overnight in Cowra on Friday 4th April and be ready to assemble at 8.30 am at a point in Cowra to be advised, then travel to the property (about a 30 minute drive). This will give us adequate time to do all sites during Saturday. Participants may return to Cowra or possibly go on to Canowindra to visit the Age of Fishes Museum on Sunday. Please advise Diana or David Hindmarsh (dhindy@bigpond.net.au or 02 4234 1468 or 0414 383 976) ASAP, preferably before 4pm on Thursday, 6th March to register and receive latest information.
Field Trip – S.E. QUEENSLAND, N.E. NSW and GEMBOREE at GATTON QLD April 16th-22nd 16th-17th Claypave Quarry, Dinmore – Triassic plant fossils 18TH Gatton Gemboree field Trip Gatton Gemboree* 19th 20th-21st Chinchilla for Petrified Wood Contact David or Diana Hindmarsh (dhindy@bigpond.net.au or 02 4234 1468 or 0414 383 976) to register and receive latest information. May 4th
CLUB MEETING and SOCIAL DAY
September 14th
SOCIAL DAY and ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
October 4th-6th, Labour Day Weekend November 23rd
Field Trip – VICTORIA
FOSSIL CLUB CHRISTMAS PARTY
*This is not an official Fossil Club activity. Information only for those who may wish to attend. Annual fees were due by 30 June 2013 for the 2013-2014 year. Financial members only are eligible to attend the above activities, except for non-Fossil Club activities. Membership Application/Renewal form is available at the website www.fossilclubnsw.org.au Personal Accident insurance is compulsory for all members attending field trips, except those over 80. The annual cost is $3.50 per member and must be paid before registering for the first field trip. If you are a member of another lapidary, gem or mineral club and pay insurance to that club, you will already be covered.