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July 1981 visit to macrofossil locality

In 1980 Ian Ogilvie while checking an aeromagnetic anomaly noticed unusual fossils in the same locality, and contacted the University of Adelaide, who referred him to the palaeontologist Dr Mary Wade at the Queensland Museum. Dr Wade was sufficiently interested to want to see the locality herself, and the following July travelled to Tennant Creek with her assistant Andrew Rozefelds. Ian Ogilvie then guided them (and Paul Harbourn a Geopeko geologist) to the locality, at low outcrops to the west of the lower Hanson River.

All photographs © 1981 Ian Ogilvie

nautiloids

location

Excerpt from Lander River 1:250 000 geology map ©1979 BMR
showing macrofossil localities WB5, WB6, WB12, WB13, WB14 investigated by Milligan et al 1966

Paul Harbourn (Geopeko), Dr Mary Wade (Queensland Museum), Andrew C. Rozefelds (Queensland Museum)

Dr Mary Wade (Queensland Museum)

magnetometer mounted on Landcruiser; also under the boom two fluxgate compasses used by the Sperry-Rand dead-reckoning system
L.A. Richardson & Associates geophysics company

magnetometer and Sperry-Rand dead-reckoning equipment (Markham 1970) mounted in Landcruiser
L.A. Richardson & Associates geophysics company

References

Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics. 1979. Lander River. Australia 1:250 000 geological series. Sheet SF 53-1, 1st ed. Canberra: Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics. Under GEOCAT catalogue number 71367, available for free download from Geoscience Australia Product Search; also available from Geoscience Australia Geoscience Portal

Markham, John. 1970. Sea bed vehicle navigation. Sperry Rand Engineering Review 23.2,24-28. * includes a description of the 'Sperry land navigator'

Milligan, E.N., K.G. Smith, R.A.H. Nichols & H.F. Doutch. 1966. Geology of the Wiso Basin, Northern Territory. Bureau of Mineral Resources Geology and Geophysics Records 1966/47. GEOCAT catalogue number 11761, available for free download from Geoscience Australia Product Search

Wade, Mary J. 1982. Ordovician nautiloids of the Wiso and Georgina Basins, northern Australia. Palaeontological Contributions from the University of Oslo 280, 56. (= 4th International symposium on the Ordovician system, Oslo, Norway. Abstracts for meetings. 20, 21 & 23 August 1982. Ed. by David L. Bruton & S.H. Williams)

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URL http://www.anu.edu.au/linguistics/nash/kt/1981-macrofossils/index.html