by kapow | Sep 27, 2021 | Blog, Sediments
Sydney Harbour: Impact of contamination studies Sydney Harbour, its catchment and local government areas. Many have written on the beauty and values of Sydney Harbour. Perhaps no one has captured this better than Kenneth Slessor in his poem “Five Bells”. He also wrote...
by kapow | Sep 17, 2021 | Blog, Sediments
Geological indicators of seabed mobility – Narrabeen Beach (Sydney, Australia) Stratigraphic cross section off Narrabeen beach based on vibrocore and drilling data (Hudson and Roy, 1988) There are many gems hidden in the unpublished historic literature. They...
by kapow | Oct 8, 2019 | Blog, Sediments
Coastal morphostratigraphy: two papers from Denmark An Australian example of barrier morphostratigraphy – Moruya (Source: Oliver et al 2014) Many years ago I was introduced to the concept of morphostratigraphy in reading the work of John Frye from Kansas...
by kapow | Sep 4, 2019 | Blog, Sediments
Coastal erosion and accretion beyond the historical timescale in NSW A paper has recently been published in Geophysical Research Letters on the use of beach morphostratigraphic records to decipher past extreme coast erosion (Timura, T. et al., GRL, 7 May 2019). The...
by kapow | Jun 22, 2019 | Blog, Sediments
A Curiosity of Cusps It is often said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. For me a trip to the beach is enhanced when I see cusps. These delightful, rhythmic features are often so captivating in their geometric perfection that one cannot help pondering on the...
by kapow | Dec 17, 2018 | Blog, Sediments
CLIFF-TOP DUNES Ever since my undergraduate days, I have been fascinated by pits in sand deposits around the eastern suburbs of Sydney. I grew up in Rose Bay. Trevor Langford-Smith had me digging a pit in the backyard of our home in Roberts Street. This was part of a...