illawarra, coal, measures, group, sedimentary, rocks, occurring, sydney, basin, eastern, australia, this, stratum, metres, thick, formed, late, permian, comprises, shale, quartz, lithic, sandstone, conglomerate, rocks, chert, with, sporadically, carbonaceous, . The Illawarra Coal Measures is a group of sedimentary rocks occurring in the Sydney Basin in eastern Australia This stratum is up to 150 metres thick Formed in the Late Permian it comprises shale quartz lithic sandstone conglomerate rocks and chert with sporadically carbonaceous mudstone coal and seams of torbanite 1 Coal mining of these measures remains a significant commercial enterprise to the present day 2 One of the abandoned coal mines in the Blue Mountains is now a tourist attraction Abandoned coal mine ventilation shaft at Mount Keira AustraliaSee also editSydney Basin Hawkesbury sandstone Mittagong Formation Ashfield Shale Narrabeen groupReferences edit Illawarra Coal Measures Geo Science Australia Australian Government Retrieved 1 October 2012 Hartcher Chris NSW GOVERNMENT WELCOMES US 845 MILLION INVESTMENT IN ILLAWARRA COAL PDF Media Release NSW Government Archived from the original PDF on 11 April 2013 Retrieved 1 October 2012 nbsp This article about a specific Australian geological feature is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Illawarra Coal Measures amp oldid 1137580714, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
