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    Sydney sandstone, also known as the Hawkesbury sandstone, yellowblock, and yellow gold, is a sedimentary rock named after Sydney, and the Hawkesbury River...
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    Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral. Sandstones...
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    in the Sydney sandstone. Port Jackson, better known as Sydney Harbour, is one such ria. The Sydney area lies on Triassic shales and sandstones. The region...
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    dolerite intrusion, west of Sydney). The Sydney Basin was formed in the early Triassic period. The sand that was to become the sandstone of today was laid down...
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  • Sydney University of Melbourne University of Tasmania University of Adelaide University of Queensland University of Western Australia The sandstone universities...
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    Bay with a memorial tablet. The Gap is formed from Sydney sandstone making it part of the Sydney basin. The cliff was laid as sediment more than 200...
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    The University of Sydney Quadrangle is a prominent quadrangle formed through the construction of several Sydney sandstone buildings located within The...
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    supercontinent and the Sydney basin was situated within a depositional basin. The Ashfield Shale, which overlies the Sydney sandstone, indicates an alteration...
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    The Sydney Sandstone Ridgetop Woodland, also known as Coastal Sandstone Ridgetop Woodland and Hornsby Enriched Sandstone Exposed Woodland, is a shrubby...
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    Canberra. "Sydney Sandstone Ridgetop Woodland". Northern Beaches Council. Retrieved 15 November 2018. "Urban Bushland in the Ryde LGA - Sydney Sandstone Ridgetop...
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    000 cu ft) of sandstone from underneath the building. The Sydney Town Hall is built within the former Old Sydney Burial Ground. The cemetery was Sydney's first...
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    were the Victorian buildings of the city centre created out of local Sydney sandstone, and the turn of the century Federation style in the new garden suburbs...
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    also pedestrianise it. The first Sydney railway workshop, constructed c. 1855, was a substantial two storey sandstone building with arched openings to...
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    The Southern Sydney sheltered forest, or the Sydney Sandstone Gully Forest (SSGF), is a vegetation community found in Sydney, Australia that comprises...
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    the cultural or natural history of New South Wales. A major sandstone building in Sydney, the physical fabric of the cathedral demonstrates the quality...
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    Bents Basin State Conservation Area (category Sydney localities)
    in the Sydney metropolitan area. The lake basin, which formed at the efflux of the Nepean River from the Hawkesbury Sandstone (Sydney sandstone) gorge...
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    Long Gully Bridge (category Sandstone bridges in Australia)
    bridge opened in January 1892 as a steel suspension bridge finished in Sydney sandstone with crenellated turreted towers. The bridge was transferred to the...
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    guidance of Colonial Architect James Barnet. Composed primarily of local Sydney sandstone, mined in Pyrmont, the primary load-bearing northern façade has been...
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    Bonnet Bay (category Suburbs of Sydney)
    the same name. Its terrain consists of Sydney sandstone with steep gullies, creeks, escarpments and one sandstone plateau. In terms of crime rates, Bonnet...
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    House, which is the Sydney official residence of the Australian Prime Minister). This large Victorian Regency and Italianate sandstone manor, completed in...
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    Buntsandstein (colourful sandstone), the middle Muschelkalk (shell-bearing limestone) and the upper Keuper (coloured clay). Early Triassic sandstone (Buntsandstein)...
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  • brickwork with approximately 320,000 individual bricks referencing Sydney sandstone laid by hand and two oval classrooms constructed of large laminated...
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    Bulgo Sandstone is a sedimentary rock occurring in the Sydney Basin in eastern Australia. This stratum is up to 100 metres thick, formed in the early...
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  • oldest university in both Australia and Oceania. One of Australia's six sandstone universities, it was one of the world's first universities to admit students...
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    Sydney rock engravings, or Sydney rock art, are a form of Australian Aboriginal rock art in the sandstone around Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, that...
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    two-storey house in the Victorian Rustic Gothic Revival style and built in Sydney sandstone. The house was severely damaged by fire in 1905 and restored with modifications...
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    Fort Denison (category Islands of Sydney)
    Fort Denison, part of the Sydney Harbour National Park, is a protected national park that is a heritage-listed former penal site and defensive facility...
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    Geology Sydney Basin Sydney sandstone Narrabeen group City of Sydney Regions of Sydney Suburbs of Sydney Sydney central business district North Sydney Barangaroo...
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    Mrs Macquarie's Chair (category Monuments and memorials in Sydney)
    as Lady Macquarie's Chair) is an exposed sandstone rock cut into the shape of a bench, on a peninsula in Sydney Harbour. It was hand carved by convicts...
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    vernacular style: corrugated tin roof over glass louvre windows, on a Sydney sandstone base, set among eucalypts and angophoras". During excavating work for...
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