The Hornsby Quarry Geosite, NSW, Australia—A Geoheritage Treasure

Quarrying for aggregate material at Hornsby in New South Wales (Australia) exposed a >100 m-deep cross-section of the volcanic neck of a Jurassic diatreme, which extruded through the Sydney Basin deposits. The cross-section reveals volcanic features at many scales. Globally, there are very few in...

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Main Author: Trudi A. Semeniuk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-11-01
Series:Land
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/11/12/2124