The Sutherland Shire is a local government area of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales,
Geographically, it is the area to the south of Botany Bay and the Georges River. Within the Shire is the birthplace of modern Australia, as it was the first landing site of Captain James Cook, who went ashore onto what is now the suburb of Kurnell on 29 April 1770. It was originally intended to be the site of the first British Settlement, before Sydney Cove was chosen as the location during the First Fleet
The geology of the Sutherland Shire, whilst sharing characteristics with the North Shore, is very different from the western and central suburbs of Sydney. The oldest rock unit in the Shire is the Illawarra Coal Measures.
The Illawarra Coal Measures is a group of sedimentary rocks occurring in the Sydney Basin. This strata is up to 150 metres thick. Formed in the late Permian rises shale,quartz-lithic sandstone, conglomerate rocks, chert sporadically carbonaceous mudstone, coal and seams of torbanite.
This earth cache takes you to one of the places that test drilling was done on the Illawarra Coal Measures.
At the given waypoint you will find a plaque taking in this event. Answer the questions below. Afterwards visit the second waypoint S 34° 02.515 E 151° 04.744 for a photo (optional) and answer the final two questions. Then send me the answers dont include here and I will get back to you saying you can log the find. Please include the photo in your log. Goodluck and hope you enjoy your visit
Questions
Q1 In which year was the bore Dents creek Bore drilled?
Q2 How many seams were found?
Q3 How many feet was the second bore thick?
Q4 Where was the sixth bore sunk?
Q5 When was this plaque unveiled?
Q6 At waypoint 2 S 34° 02.515 E 151° 04.744 the structure has two wooden supports how many bolts are on one side of these supports
Q7 Look closely at the bridge and tell me the three (3) colours you can see, and what minerals each one is. BUT PLEASE DONT WALK ON IT!
FTF Honors to specimenX, Well done!!!!!!