(PDF) Beacon Hill shale quarry, Sydney, New South Wales, …
Geology of Beacon Hill shale quarry Beacon Hill shale, believed to occupy an abandoned (or cut-off) braid-plain channel, had a maximum thickness, now almost entirely extracted, around 8.0 m, developed in the central quarry zone, quickly decreasing in thickness towards its edges via a combination of thinningout and erosion (Lloyd 1961).
