Carrara to Springbrook, S. B. Skertchly, inv. et del. ; chiefly from observations made Jan. 3 to Jan. 7 1914 in company with Mr. & Mrs. E. Cooper of Birribon ; and Mr. & Mrs. E. J. Cooper of Coone ; 13 January 1914
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Carrara to Springbrook, S. B. Skertchly, inv. et del. ; chiefly from observations made Jan. 3 to Jan. 7 1914 in company with Mr. & Mrs. E. Cooper of Birribon ; and Mr. & Mrs. E. J. Cooper of Coone ; 13 January 1914
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Carrara to Springbrook
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S. B. Skertchly, inv. et del. ; chiefly from observations made Jan. 3 to Jan. 7 1914 in company with Mr. & Mrs. E. Cooper of Birribon ; and Mr. & Mrs. E. J. Cooper of Coone ; 13 January 1914
Summary
Cross-sectional profile on drafting linen showing an area of land between the Nerang River, Queensland; and the Tweed Valley, New South Wales; drawn by hand. Includes legend with explanations of geological features and soil types"Sydney B.J. Skertchly was probably the first to successfully apply stratigraphic principles to try and establish the antiquity of the Aboriginal occupation of Australia. An English educated geologist, Skertchly arrived in Queensland in 1891. Skertchly left England in the 1880s and spent time in the U.S.A. and in Asia in various official capacities, but following the Chinese Civil War of 1891, he migrated from Hong Kong to the Colony of Queensland to become Assistant State Geologist. In his retirement, between 1913 until the time of his death in 1926, Skertchly undertook field survey work in the vicinity of Nerang, investigating the nature of the Aboriginal occupation of the region. Skertchly focused much of his investigation at his son-in-law's property at Coong [ie. Coone], today the site of the Carrara Football Stadium." [Information source: Westaway, M.C. 2012. Sydney B.J. Skertchly and the Early History of Pleistocene Archaeology at the Queensland Museum. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 22(1):pp. 14-18. http://www.archaeologybulletin.org/article/view/bha.22114/549]
Table Of Contents
Nerang River -- Birribon -- Railway -- Road to Worongary -- Edge of black soil flat -- Road -- Road -- Little Nerang Creek -- Road -- Along Little Nerang Creek Road -- Little Nerang Creek -- Wunburra Range -- Mt. Wunburra -- Diorite dyke -- Glass rock -- Pitchstone and pearlite -- Mt. Wintle -- Boyull Creek -- Macpherson Range escarpment -- Tweed Valley
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Carrara to Springbrook, Queensland, 1914, [cartographic material]
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