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RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
RST Apology to Tasmanian Aboriginal people 2021.
Near Middlesex Road, 9 km northeast of the Hellyer mine, northwestern Tasmania, a mineral exploration hole intersects a polymict volcaniclastic conglomerate of the Southwell Subgroup of the Mt Read Volcanics. At depths of 353 m and 364 m, fossiliferous limestone clasts within this conglomerate contain trilobites, including an unassigned agnostoid cephalon, Amphoton sp., Liopeishania sp., Menocephalites(?) sp., Lisania(?) sp. and an unassigned member of the Dorypygidae, thus suggesting an age of Goniagnostus nathorsti Zone to early Lejopyge laevigata Zone (i.e. Late Middle Cambrian) range. This shallow-water fauna is unusual for the Tasmanian Cambrian, in which most faunas are found in deeper water shales and siltstones. The horizon from which the fossils come is stratigraphically close to a rhyolite with a SHRIMP zircon age of 503.2 ± 3.8 Ma; the usefulness of this figure in terms of the Cambrian time-scale is questioned.
Royal Society of Tasmania, RST, Van Diemens Land, natural history, science, ecology, taxonomy, botany, zoology, geology, geography, papers & proceedings, Australia, UTAS Library
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The Royal Society of Tasmania acknowledges, with deep respect, the traditional owners of this land, and the ongoing custodianship of the Aboriginal people of Tasmania. The Society pays respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that Tasmanian Aboriginal Peoples have survived severe and unjust impacts resulting from invasion and dispossession of their Country. As an institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge, the Royal Society of Tasmania recognises Aboriginal cultural knowledge and practices and seeks to respect and honour these traditions and the deep understanding they represent.
On 15 February 2021, the Royal Society of Tasmania offered a formal Apology to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
