Ref NoLDGSL/943/3
TitlePhotographs of Permo-Carboniferous glacial features in Victoria
Date[c.1895]
LevelFile
Extent7 mounted prints
FormatPhotograph/drawing/painting/print
DescriptionTannatt William Edgeworth DAVID, photographs of Permo-Carboniferous glacial features in Victoria, Australia [c.1895]. Comprises:

1) 'The Stranger' an erratic of granite, weighing over 30 tons weathered out of the Permo-Carboniferous boulder beds at Derrinal near Heathcote, Victoria, Australia.
2) Striated pavement of Ordovician quartzite, exposed through denudation of the once overlying Permo-Carboniferous 'Glacial Conglomerates' (boulder beds). Derrinal, near Heathcote, Victoria, Australia. Looking south.
3) Striated pavement of Ordovician Rock (quartzite) exposed through the denudation of the once overlying boulder beds (Permo-Carboniferous), near Heathcote, Victoria, Australia. Looking north-north-east.
4) Glacial Conglomerates, indenting laminated Sandstone at bend in Myriong Creek, below Dunbar, Pentland Hills, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia.
5) General view of the Gangamopteris Sandstone quarry and the overlying and underlying glacial beds, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia.
6) Quarry showing Gangamopteris bearing Sandstone capped by Glacial Conglomerates and boulder beds, Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia.
7) Permo Carboniferous boulder beds, containing abundant strongly glaciated boulders and pebbles. Railway cutting, Derrinal, near Heathcote, Victoria, Australia.
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LanguageEnglish
Publication NoteAccompanied the paper read before the Society, May 1896, and published as: David, T W E. "Evidences of Glacial Action in Australia in Permo-Carboniferous Time", Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society', vol 52 (1896), pp289-301. Photographs cited on p295.
ArchNoteDescription by John Thackray; revised by Caroline Lam.
CreatorNameDAVID | Sir | Tannatt William Edgeworth | 1858-1934 | geologist
SubjectPalaeoglaciations
Glacial geology
Previous referenceLDGSL 945
Persons
CodePersonNameDates
DS/UK/779DAVID; Sir; Tannatt William Edgeworth (1858-1934); geologist1858-1934
Places
CodePlaceName
NA184Victoria
NA111Australia
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