The Geology and Flora of the Sydney Basin

A photographic journey through the rich and varied geology, scenery and flora of the Sydney Basin - the perfect way to learn about the geology that underpins the landscape and diverse flora of this region.

The Geology and Flora of the Sydney Basin: A Photographic Journey is an updated and expanded version of Rocks and Trees published in 2018, with a new objective to encapsulate the Sydney Basin to its outer limits.

The book's framework is the basin's geology: the complex succession of sedimentary rocks and the igneous, tectonic and erosional events that affected them across an area that is roughly twice the size of Wales, not to mention two-thirds the size of Tasmania!

On this diverse and extraordinary geology and landscape grow even more diverse - and often very beautiful - floras. The creation by botanists of formal terms like Blue Mountains Diatreme Moist Forest, Blue Mountains Shale Cap Forest and Shale Sandstone Transition Forest for threatened ecological communities shows a clear recognition of linking the flora to the underlying rocks, thus providing a firm technical basis for a book of this kind.

*A4 portrait format
*551 pages
*More than 1000 colour photographs plus numerous geological maps, diagrams and sketches
Offset printed, casebound and section sewn so openings lie flat and portray full photograph spans perfectly
*Glossary of nearly 300 geological terms with strong bias towards Sydney Basin geology
*Appendix of detailed microscope petrography of key rock samples, many with no previously published information – new published data!
*135 references
*Full index