JUST A LOCAL FLOOD?

How far from home would you have to go to find evidence of cataclysmic flooding by sea-water?...down in the back paddock?...just out of town?

We showed you a fossil shell specimen from Heron’s Ocean – I mean Heron’s Creek, only 15 kilometres from home. Our friends’ paddock is in the Camden Haven River catchment, 20 metres above the Pacific Ocean 13 kilometres away.

Nearby, in the Hastings River catchment, we have Bago Bluff towering over the ‘timber-town’ of Wauchope and even though it seems to comprise uplifted conglomerate, the National Parks and Wildlife Service ignore requests for information on fossils. I wonder why.                                      
Never-mind….just below the bluff….right on the edge of town!...we find these beauties in limestone, the same distance from the Pacific Ocean but this time 60 metres above sea level.    

 

(By the way, this limestone seam apparently runs all the way up to the mountains of Willi Willi - 700 metres above sea level!)

Now we move north into the much larger Macleay River catchment and find specimens like this in a council quarry 100 metres above the ocean which is 45 kilometres away!

 

A 100 metre tide??....come on now…..that’s not just a local flood, it’s not even a tsunami – how about a cataclysm?....a global catastrophe right here in the area where our town council advertised to tourists: ‘God lives here’!

…or perhaps God judged here??

 Photo credit:  specimen / Tony Sullivan