Petrographic description of seventeen rock specimens from Muswellbrook, New South Wales

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

The following report contains descriptions of thin sections of 17 rocks collected from cores and outcrops in the Muswellbrook area. This report is for information of officers in the area, who have retained duplicate hand-specimens. Specimens are numbered 1 to 18, and description of one specimen collected (No. 13) is not given here. Discussion of this rock is of academic interest only, and time has prevented its incorporation in the following report.

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Title Petrographic description of seventeen rock specimens from Muswellbrook, New South Wales
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/cb7a6deb-c921-4497-a806-ddaabf5a7882
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Reference Period 22/04/2018
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