JCU Rock Garden Mystery Cache

This one is a cross between a Multi and a Mystery . Shouldn't take you longer than half an hour max .

The Rock Garden has examples of rocks from around North Queensland and gives you some information about them.

To find the right numbers you need to take a wander through, find the information plaques for the rocks mentioned below and replace the questionmarks with the missing digits.

A) Coarse sandstone, Mingela Bluff

.....hinterland of Townsville some 3?0 million years ago.....

B) Coarse sandstone, Mingela Bluff

.....a sedimentary system up to ?km thick that developed in.....

C) Shell bed, north Bowen Basin

.....thrived as shellfish on a 26? million year old seafloor.....

D) Lateric nickel ore from Greenvale

.....due to plate boundary convergence some ?30 million years ago.....

E) Fossil nautiloid, Richmond

.....thin sedimentary system deposited some ?00 million years ago.....

F) Bauxite from Weipa

.....an extensive coastal plain some ?0 million years ago.....

The cache can be found close by at:

S 19* 19. A B C

E146* 45. D E F

Please bring your own pen to sign the log (or find a student to borrow one )
One star of the difficulty rating is for the muggle factor, it can get very busy here, so choose the time for your visit wisely.