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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 and their relation to the shallow marine sediments and depositional processes. Additionally, due to...

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 suite of reconnaissance U–Pb zircon ages from this succession, comprising two Wandrawandian Siltstone ...