Bundook Beds | |
Period: | Devonian |
Type: | Geological formation |
Underlies: | Wallanbah Formation |
Thickness: | up to 2740m (8,990feet) |
Location: | New England Orogen |
Country: | Australia |
Year Ts: | 1988 |
Location Ts: | New South Wales |
Country Ts: | Australia |
The Bundook Beds is a rock formation in the New England Orogen in eastern Australia. The maximum thickness is 2,740 metres, Formed between the Famennian and Frasnian in the late Devonian geological period. [1]
Bundook beds consists of grey to brown lithic sandstone and siltstone, frequently cherty and ribbon banded. The formation is interbedded with massive greywackes, minor conglomerates and minor limestone.[2]