The Newport Formation is a
geologic formation outcropping in the
Sydney Basin
The Sydney Basin is an interim Australian bioregion and is both a structural entity and a depositional area, now preserved on the east coast of New South Wales, Australia and with some of its eastern side now subsided beneath the Tasman Sea. ...
in eastern
Australia
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. This stratum is up to 49 metres thick. Formed in the mid-
Triassic, it is part of the
Narrabeen Group of sedimentary rocks.
See also
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Sydney Basin
The Sydney Basin is an interim Australian bioregion and is both a structural entity and a depositional area, now preserved on the east coast of New South Wales, Australia and with some of its eastern side now subsided beneath the Tasman Sea. ...
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Bald Hill Claystone
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Garie Formation
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Narrabeen group
References
Geologic formations of Australia
Triassic Australia
Sandstone formations
Geology of New South Wales
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