[Rockhounds] Chasing Opal and Fossils in the Australian Outback

Paul etchplain at att.net
Sat Jul 27 07:07:07 PDT 2019


Chasing Opal and Fossils in the Australian Outback
An ambitious collaboration between scientists and
a local mining community seeks to preserve
one-of-a-kind opalized fossils. BY Clare Watson, Undark
https://undark.org/article/chasing-opal-fossils-australian-outback/

A recent paper is:

Bell, P.R., Fanti, F., Hart, L.J., Milan, L.A., Craven, S.J., Brougham,
T. and Smith, E., 2019. Revised geology, age, and vertebrate
diversity of the dinosaur-bearing Griman Creek Formation
(Cenomanian), Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, Australia.
 ??Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 514,
pp.655-671.

Yours,

Paul H.




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