Geo-Tourism, Country NSW in Kiacatoo | Environmental conservation organisation

Geo-Tourism, Country NSW

Locality: Kiacatoo

Phone: +61 484 650 521

Address: Alawa' Kiacatoo Road 2877 Kiacatoo, NSW, Australia

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21.01.2022 Who wants to go on a treasure hunt??

20.01.2022 Check out these moves! We're loving the dance moves of Victorias riflebird, also known as the duwuduwu to the Yidinji people. This courtship display was captured at Lake Eacham in the Crater Lakes National Park by Bhartee Ramhit.

20.01.2022 Ol ftd Bottles, & Pre Decimal Coins are todsyys agemda!

20.01.2022 Bigfoots head...

17.01.2022 GARNET ROCKS GARNET ROCKS: is the most interesting of these rocks. It has been so highly metamorphosedthat it has lost all traces of its original structure. Fro...m the point of mineral composition it could be either highly metamorphosed sediment or the metamorphosed equivalent of a basic igneous Rock. It consists of garnet, biotite and quartz with occasional segregations of felspar.The' general appearance is st~iking as the bulk of the rock is made up of red garnet withlustrous flakes of black biotite filling in the interstices. The quartz is subordinate and isnot seen till the rock is closely examined. The microscope appearance is even more striking. The garnet which is a light pink in thin section forms large crystals over a centimetre in diameter, and encloses large crystals of quartz and biotite. Its refractive index is above 1; 79 and as.the mineral is completely isotropic it is most probably almandine. The biotite is a vivid green and has X = light brownish yellow, Y = z deep emerald green. It is biaxial negative and has 2E approximately 15. It is noticeable for th'e beauty and abundance of the pleochroic haloes developed in it (Plate XIII). The included grains are both zircon andxenotime. The haloes have X = yellow (more intense than the rest of the biotite), Y = Z = very dark brown. There is some muscovite inter grown with the biotite. MISCELLANEOUS ROCKS: is a lit-par-lit gneiss in which a granitic or pegmatitic liquid has interleaved and all but assimilated a mica schist. The argillaceous portion is now represented by narrow bands of biotite separating the different "lit" of igneous material. These" lit" are about 2 to 5 mlIi. Across with an occasional band 10 mm. or more across. Crystals of garnet are not uncommon and occasional laiger crystals break across the banding. The grain-size is very irregular. In the granitic bands the grains lie between 0'6 and 10 mm. The wider bands of argillaceous material are marked by the finer crystallization of the quartz and felspar (abo11t 0'4 mm.) and by flakes of brown biotite. The structure ofthe granitic bands is allotriomorphic granular and that of the argillaceous bands differs only in the parallel arrangement of the ~iotite crystals. The quartz is abimdant. It has undulose extinction and contains many strings of gas-liquid inclusions. The more common felspar is perthitic microcline. The albite. Forms small parallel streaks and is not at all closely spaced. Plagioclase is much less abundant than the microcline and has a composition of Ab soAn2o ' In places there is myrmekitic intergrowth" between the two felspars. Biotite is reddish brown with X = light straw yellow, Y = Z = reddish brown. . It contains pleochroic haloes around inclusions of .zircon and xenotirile. There is a small amount of muscovite also present. Garnet forms round pink grains and contains very few inclusions.' The accessories are zircon, apatite, magnetite and' xenotime. The apatite forms 'small hexagonal mid elongated grains. Zircon is in small elongated grains with a high relief. Xenotime has a relief noticeable lower than the zircon and. occurs in larger grains. The minerals in order of abundance are orthoclase, quartz, plagioclase, biotite, garnet, muscovite, apatite, xenotime, magnetite and zircon. The origin of the rock is obscure but it is not unlikely that it is metamorphosed quartz porphyry. The quartz phenocrysts of the original rock have simply re-crystallized' to a granular mosaic while still preserving their original shape. The large weathered Felspar crystals represent the original felspar phenocrysts. The stony ground-mass containing potential quartz and felspar has crystallized to a granular mass of crystals in which the grain-size although less than the quartz of the aggregates is still considerably greater than it would have had. The rock devitrified without the metamorphism. However in the absence of field relations this is no more than a hypothesis which can neither be proved nor disproved. In composition and in external appearance it closely simulates granite and it can be called granitoid gneis #GeologyHere #Note

16.01.2022 Lachlan River, Euabalong

15.01.2022 Mira & Riodio become farm friends on Sunday 26/7/20

14.01.2022 Im so excited! Today we are going on a Fossil Hunt! We hope to find a dig site rich in Fossils! Wish us luck!Im so excited! Today we are going on a Fossil Hunt! We hope to find a dig site rich in Fossils! Wish us luck!

14.01.2022 Fascinating..fabulous and fun!

13.01.2022 Lifes to short to sit around so just do it

13.01.2022 Two mature trees can provide enough oxygen for a family of four. Trees communicate with each other...they talk in a language that we dont yet quite understand.... Trees store huge amounts of carbon that has helped to keep the earths temperature in check for millions of years. Trees turn into forests that help protect and feed our earths incredible animal species. Yet we have destroyed over 50% of the worlds forests. We use trees like they are an infinite resource and see them for their material value rather than the value they have as an integral part of a healthy functioning ecosystem. Therefore we continue to burn, bulldoze and mine this life saving plant at a rate that will eventually cause collapse for all life on earth. Plant a tree today to save an animal. Plant a tree today to save our climate from becoming unliveable. And finally, plant a tree today to save a family. Happy National Tree Day

13.01.2022 A few weeks ago Mira and myself went treasure hunting for a Geo-Cache..

11.01.2022 Wow.. who knew Apollo 11 left reflectors on the moon and Aug 2020 was their first reflection which took 2.5seconds!

07.01.2022 In early September, WIRES received a call about an injured echidna outside of Wagga Wagga. After an assessment check at Moorong Veterinary Clinic, the echidna w...as found to have no injuries and looked perfectly healthy. WIRES carer Erin took the echidna home for release the next day. The next morning Erin woke up to realise the echidna had attempted to self-release overnight and was digging up the enclosure! Every rescue has a different lesson, this one was that echidna are spiky, determined and have an iron will.

06.01.2022 Hello. Found on the beach. What you think?