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Minchinbury Sandstone

Triassic age unit of sedimentary rock in Australia

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name	Minchinbury Sandstone
period	Middle Triassic
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image	Sandstone beside Duck River NSW.JPG
caption	Exposed sandstone beside the Duck River, in South Granville
type	Geological formation
prilithology	Sandstone
otherlithology	Shale
unitof	Wiannamatta group
underlies	Bringelly Shale
overlies	Hawkesbury sandstone
thickness	up to 6 m
location	Sydney, Australia
region	Western Sydney, south-western Sydney
country	Australia
namedfor	Minchinbury
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Minchinbury Sandstone is a component of the Wianammatta Group of sedimentary rocks in the Sydney Basin of eastern Australia that was formed in the middle Triassic period. The sandstone was structured by marine deposition as a set of sandy barrier islands at a coastal shoreline.

Description

Thickness is between 1.5 m and 6 m , usually less than 3 m . It comprises up to 70% quartz with calcite and volcanic lithic fragments. There is less feldspar and more calcite than the adjacent Bringelly Shale. Related to Greywacke, it comprises fine to medium-grained lithic sandstone. The sandstone is a shoreline facies containing a beach and barrier bar complex.

The Bringelly Shale lies above the Minchinbury Sandstone. Fossils are rare in this stratum, though plant fragments have been recorded.

Location

The type locality of the formation is near the Great Western Highway in the suburb of Minchinbury in western Sydney. It is most often seen in the western parts of the city. Outcroppings are weak and not easily found, but it may be seen in places like road cuttings in localities from Epping, Grose Vale-Kurrajong, Kellyville, Rogans Hill, Bankstown, Pendle Hill, Bonnyrigg, Menangle, Duck River, Brownlow Hill and other sites.

At Minchinbury, the sandstone is more than 100 m deep in a downhole, and its natural outcrops are particularly elusive to find elsewhere. In Lansdowne, there are large, albeit disconnected sandstone slabs, with other smaller outcrops and floaters dispersed near a slope.

References

(1980). "A Guide to the Sydney basin". Geological Survey of NSW.
John Byrnes & [[Viera Scheibner]]. "The inorganic nature of marine microfossils described from the Wianamatta Group". Geological Survey of New South Wales.
"Bulletin No. 25 - 1979: The Geology and Resource Potential of the Wianamatta Group.". [[New South Wales Government]].
"Geology Of The Triassic Rocks Of The Sydney Area". pellsconsulting.com.au.
"Minchinbury Sandstone". Australian Government.
Lovering, J. F., 1954. "Bringelly Shale". Australian Museum.
"Wianamatta Group". Step.org.

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