Where is agate creek queensland

After passing the entrance sign to the fossicking area, turn left after crossing Agate Creek. Camping is not permitted in the fossicking area but the landholder, David Terry, allows camping nearby, adjacent to Agate Creek outside the fossicking area. Camping is not permitted elsewhere on Robin Hood station or adjoining properties.

A range of accommodation options is available in Forsayth. The creeks in the area are usually dry but water may be found in Black Rock Waterhole and Banyan Spring. The fossicking localities occur in the basin-shaped area of Agate Pocket, which is underlain by rocks of the Agate Creek Volcanic Group, a remnant of a volcanic sequence of early Permian age. This was deposited on a basement of granitic rocks of the Robin Hood Granodiorite.

Intrusive bodies of much the same age have penetrated the volcanics, including rhyolite and the Connie May Dolerite. In later Jurassic times, the volcanics were covered by sandstones and conglomerates of the Hampstead Sandstone; these have since been stripped off and now remain only as hill cappings on the south-western escarpment bordering the pocket and at the head of Spring and Agate creeks.

Agate occurs as amygdales filled gas bubbles in the upper parts of basaltic andesite lava flows Black Soil Andesite and thunder eggs occur as spherulites in rhyolitic lava Thunder Egg Rhyolite which forms the north-eastern rim of the pocket. Agates occur as nodules solid agate or as geodes, roughly ellipsoidal or rounded in shape in various sizes but averaging about 50mm. The agate is often multi-coloured and usually banded in straight, curved or irregular patterns.

The thunder eggs in the rhyolite may contain infillings of red-brown jasper. Agates can be separated from the decomposed lavas by hand digging. Because the agate is hard and resists weathering, searching down-slope colluvial deposits may also be productive as agates are released and transported from the host lavas. Saw a family of kangaroos and met some lovely people. Make sure you turn Read more. Yes you heard us you can get out to nature whilst staying fresh and clean!

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