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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Glossopteris Leaves - Beauchamp Falls - Blue Mountains
Carbonised Trees
Fossil Glossopteris Leaves - Permian - 10 cm scale bar
Well after a long time, and not much geological info - here is some fossils from Beauchamp Fall in the Blue Mts west of Sydney. These fossils date from the Permian.
Rod is part of The geological team at Anglo Gold Ashanti. He is a graduate of the Television Presenting Course at Tv Pro Global, has a Bachelor of Arts and Science in Natural History, Culture and Museum Studies from Macquarie University, along with a Bachelor of Science honours in Zoology from The University of Queensland, and currently working on a Masters of Museum Studies.
Since graduating, Rod has presented across the world at various palaeontological conferences, and has a few peer reviewed science articles in the process of being published.
Rod enjoys all aspects of outdoor life – the more action packed the better.
His current projects include researching Australian Mesozoic Fishes and acid etching of fossil marine limestones from North Queensland.