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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Fossils
Found in Mountain Creek (near Mt Beauty Vic)
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<blockquote data-quote="user 4386" data-source="post: 640760" data-attributes="member: 4386"><p>Also my guess. What is the rock - is it a quite a solid rock - do you have to hit it with a hammer? The rocks around Mt Beauty are almost all Early Ordovician in age and older than plants (they emerged in the mid-Ordovician but not quite like that). Also they are metamorphic rocks in which no fossils would be preserved.</p><p></p><p>I suppose there might be an extremely tiny remnant of Neogene or Palaogene sedimentary rock preserved beneath the few tiny lava remnants of similar age, but no such rocks are shown in Mountain Creek on the 250K geological map. I have not checked the 100K geology.</p><p></p><p>I am unaware of the coal that you mention and would be interested to know where it occurs. Seems very unusual for that locality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 4386, post: 640760, member: 4386"] Also my guess. What is the rock - is it a quite a solid rock - do you have to hit it with a hammer? The rocks around Mt Beauty are almost all Early Ordovician in age and older than plants (they emerged in the mid-Ordovician but not quite like that). Also they are metamorphic rocks in which no fossils would be preserved. I suppose there might be an extremely tiny remnant of Neogene or Palaogene sedimentary rock preserved beneath the few tiny lava remnants of similar age, but no such rocks are shown in Mountain Creek on the 250K geological map. I have not checked the 100K geology. I am unaware of the coal that you mention and would be interested to know where it occurs. Seems very unusual for that locality. [/QUOTE]
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Gemstones, Minerals & Fossils
Fossils
Found in Mountain Creek (near Mt Beauty Vic)
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