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Although the subject of previous investigations, there is a paucity of high-resolution stratigraphical analyses that have been undertaken on the Snapper Point Formation especially with regards to the glacially-related conglomerate beds, with many studies focusing on a broad-scale description of the formation. Therefore, the focus of this thesis is to produce a higher resolution facies analysis of the Snapper Point Formation and the inferred glacially-related facies found throughout the formation...

The Permian of the southern Sydney Basin (Australia) comprises both marine and non-marine sedimentary sequences with evidence of glacial deposition and syndepositional magmatism represented by tuffs, lava flows and hypabyssal intrusions. This succession has been well-studied in lithostratigraphy and sedimentology, but the Lower-Middle Permian chronostratigraphy remains poorly constrained due to a lack of radiometric isotope ages and strong faunal endemism. In this study, we report the first suit...