Northern Rivers Geology

A view of the geology of the Northern Rivers of New England, New South Wales. Includes thoughts on the formation of the regions volcanoes (Mount Warning, Ebor and others), groundwater, the Clarence Moreton Basin, recent sedimentation, gas (including coal seam gas), mineralization in the eastern part of the southern New England Orogen and more. What is the geological influence in the Northern Rivers and New England areas of Australia that provide us with the beauty and diversity we see today?

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Rod: I have tertiary qualifications in earth science and I have worked in areas of exploration geology, water quality management, environmental engineering, bushland management, groundwater resource studies, contaminated land and mapping programs. This has been done in private industry, local government and state government.

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Northern Rivers Geology

Pages

The NSW/QLD border geological mess and other matters - Talk at Binna Burra

List of Mount Warning and Tweed Volcano blog posts

The right age for Mount Warning

Mythical geology at the mouth of the Tweed River

Rocks and Landscapes of the Gold Coast Hinterland

A warning about Mount Warning

Old lakes between lava

The backward Clarence River

More on the Tweed Volcano

A westward Wilsons River

Nimbin Rocks!?

The volcano of the Border Ranges - Focal Peak

Ground water in the Alstonville Plateau

What is meant by some of these names (1)

What's the difference between the basalts?