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Persatuan Geologi Malaysia ISSN 0126-5539 PERSATUAN GEOLOGI MALAYSIA NEWSLETTER OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MALAYSIA KANDUNGAN (Contents) CATATAN GEOLOGI (Geological Notes) Chen Bingwei, Mustaffa Kamal Shuib and T.T. Khoo: Dating the Kenny Hill Formation: 189 spores to the fore Wan Hasiah Abdullah and Lee Chai Peng: Hydrocarbon-bearing fissure in the limestone 193 of the Togopi Formation, Dent Peninsula, Sabah PERTEMUAN PERSATUAN (Meetings of the Society) Extraordinary General Meeting 197 Chairman's Lecture I - Tan Boon Kong: Geolog-y and tunnelling 199 Chairman's Lecture II - Teh Guan Hoe: The Electronprobe Microanalyzer (EPMA): 201 applications in geology Seminar sehari Sumbangan Geofizik Dalam Kajian Sekitaran dan Pemuliharaan - Laporan 203 Kata Aluan Pengerusi Seminar 205 Kata Aluan Presiden Persatuan Geologi Malaysia 206 Ucapan Perasmian Naib Canselor Universiti Sains Malaysia 207 Aturcara Majlis 209 Abstrak-abstrak Kertas Teknik 211 Petroleum Geology Conference & Exhibition 2002 - Report 219 Welcoming Address by Prof. Madya Dr. Abdul Ghani Mohd Rafek, 220 President Geological Society of Malaysia Opening Address by Tuan Haji Akbar Tajudin Abdul Wahab, Senior General Manager, 222 Petroleum Management Unit, PETRONAS Programme 229 Poster Session 233 Abstracts of Papers 235 Abstracts of Posters 261 IEM-GSM Forum - Engineering Geology & Geotechnics in Coastal Development - Report 279 Programme 279 Abstracts of Papers 280 BERITA-BERITA PERSATUAN (News of the Society) Keahlian (Membership) 287 Pertukaran Alamat (Ch ange of Address) 287 Current Addresses Wanted 288 Pertambahan Baru Perpustakaan (New Library Additions) 288 BERITA-BERITA LAIN (Other News) Kalendar (Calendar) 289 Majlis (Council) 2002/03 Presiden (President) Abdul Ghani Rafek Naib Presiden (Vice-President) Mohd. Shafeea Leman Setiausaha (Secretary) Ahmad Tajuddin Ibrahim Penolong Setiausaha (Asst. Secretary) Ismail Yusoff Bendahari (Treasurer) Lee Chai Peng Pengarang (Editor) TehGuanHoe Presiden Yang Dahulu (Immediate Past President) : Ibrahim Komoo 2002-2004 2002-2003 Abdul Rahim Samsudin Abdul Rasid J aapar Chow Weng Sum Liew Kit Kong Ibrahim Abdullah Tan Boon Kong Nik Ramli Nik Hassan Wan Fuad Wan Hassan Jawatankuasa Kecil Pengarang (Editorial Subcommittee) Teh Guan Hoe (Pengerusi/Chairman) Fan Ah Kwai Ng Tham Fatt J.J. Pereira Lembaga Penasihat Pengarang (Editorial Advisory Board) AwPeckChin N.S. Haile S. Paramananthan Tan Boon Kong Azhar Hj. Hussin C.S. Hutchison Senathi Rajah Tan Teong Hing K.R. Chakraborty Lee Chai Peng P.H. Stauffer Teoh Lay Hock Chu Leng Heng Leong Lap Sau Peter Abolins Wan Fuad W.A. C.A. Foss Mazlan Madon Robert B. Tate Wan Hasiah Abd. About the ·5·()CiEdY"· The Society was founded in 1967 with the aim of promoting the advancement of earth sciences particularly in Malaysia and the Southeast Asian region. The Society has a membership of about 600 earth scientists interested in Malaysia and other Southeast Asian regions. The membership is worldwide in distribution. Published by the Geological Society of Malaysia. Department of Geology. University of Malaya. 50603 Kuala Lumpur. Tel: 603-7957 7036 Fax: 603-79563900 E-mail: [email protected] Printed by Art Printing Works Sdn. Bhd.. 29 Jolon Rlong. 59700 Kuala Lumpur. Dating the Kenny Hill Formation: spores to the fore CHEN BINGWEI\ MUSTAFFA KAMAL SHUIB2 AND T.T. M003 lInstitute of Geology Chinese Academy of Geological Science Baiwanzhuang Road 100037 Beijing, China 2Department of Geology University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 317 Orange Street Eastwood 2122 Sydney, Australia Abstract: Several species of Carboniferous or Permian spores were discovered in clastic rocks of the Kenny Hill Formation exposed at Pantai Dalam, Kuala Lumpur. The stratigraphy of the Formation which is poorly fossiliferous in macrofossils may well be better understood by the study of spores which appear to be abundant in the rocks. The Kenny Hill Formation covering large it is popularly believed that the Kenny Hill parts of Kuala Lumpur and adjacent areas is Formation is unconformable on the Kuala an important clastic unit overlying the Lower Lumpur Limestone and is Upper Palaeozoic Palaeozoic Kuala Lumpur Limestone which has (e.g. Gobbett, 1965 and later commentators). yielded confirmatory macrofossils such as The contact between the two units is, however, Silurian tabulate corals and brachiopods nowhere exposed. (Gobbett, 1965) even though marmorized and metamorphosed. Furthermore, carbonate lenses The lack of fossil evidence in the Kenny in black schists in Tanjong Malim similar to Hill Formation has, unfortunately, resulted in the Hawthornden Schists underlying the Kuala the blooming of speculations as regards the Lumpur Limestone contain Ordovician geological evolution of the area. It is as yet cephalopods and gastropods (Kobayashi et al., uncertain as to whether the whole ofthe Upper 1979). The Kenny Hill Formation is, however, Palaeozoic, from Devonian to Permian, is poorly fossiliferous. The only fossil found which represented in the Kenny Hill Formation. Does has been expertly identified and described is the Formation also include elements of the Agathiceras indicating Lower Permian (Abdullah succeeding Triassic? Has the whole Formation Sani, 1985). Elsewhere trace fossils and been deposited entirely in the early Permian? unidentifiable plant remains have been found There is also a belief that the lack offossils in in Puchong (Stauffer, 1973) which do not give the Formation is real (and not a result of lack any age indication. On account of its of exposures or efforts to find them) and the stratigraphic position and lack of metamorphism paucity may well have palaeoclimatic ISSN 0126-5539 Warta Geologi, Vol. 28, No.5, Sept-Oct 2'002, pp. 189-191 190 CHEN BINGWEI, MUSTAFFAKAMAL SHUIB AND T.T. KHoo Jln. Pantai 8ahru Universiti Malaya Federal Highway Bukit Kerinchi Kg.Pantai Dalam Not to scale Figure 1. Location where specimens of the Kenny Hill Formation were collected for study of the spores. Warta Geologi, Vol. 28, No.5, Sept-Oct 2002 DATING THE KENNY HILL FORMATION: SPORES TO THE FORE 191 connotation. To these and other titillating We believe the discovery of the hitherto questions obviously more quality fossil evidence hidden floral remains, namely spores, in the will help to resolve the raging problems. rocks of the Kenny Hill Formation will open up a new and more fruitful direction in the research The supposed poor fossil record in the Kenny Hill Formation is, however, only true for age of the Kenny Hill Formation and perhaps relating to macrofossils. Microfossils have not also the palaeoclimate of the time of its been seriously looked for in the clastic rocks of deposition. the Formation. On 29 August 1993, specimens of clastics from the Kenny Hill Formation were ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS collected from a site at Pantai Dalam (Fig. 1) This work is a result ofcooperative research for possible spores occurrence. The specimens under IGCP Project 321. Mr Xie Guanglian of were studied in the laboratories of the Institute the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, of Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Beijing is thanked for translation and other Sciences in Beijing. By a stroke of good luck or assistance. rather, prescience, several species of spores were found to be present and their identification REFERENCES is listed below. ABDULLAH SANI HAsHIM, 1985. Discovery ofanammonite • Leiotriletes sp in the Kenny Hill Formation and its significance. • Punctatisporites sp Warta Geologi, 11, 205-211. • Dictyotriletes sp GoBBE'IT, D.J., 1965. Lower Palaeozoic rocks of Kuala • Verrucosisporites microtuberculatus Lumpur, Malaysia. Fed. Mus. Journal, 9, 67-79. (Loose) Smith and Butterworth • ? Lycospora spp KOBAYASHI, T., GAN, A.S. AND MURTHY, KN., 1979. On • Acanthotriletes sp the geological age of the Tanjong Malim limestone in Peninsular Malaysia. Proc. Japan Acad., Ser. B, These species are probably either 259-263. Carboniferous or Permian. Better preserved STAUFFER, P.S., 1973. The Kenny Hill Formation. In: spores will enable a more definite determination Gobbett, D.J. and Hutchison, C.S. (Eds.), Geology of of the age of the rocks. the Malay Peninsula. Wiley Interscience, 87-91. ---------.~.-~-+.-.-------- Manuscript received 8 April 2002 Warta Geologi, Vol. 28, No.5, Sept-Oct 2002 Geological Evolution of South-East Asia CHARLES S. HUTCHISON GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MALAYSIA SPECIAL LOW-PRICED SOFT-COVER EDITION LIMITED STOCK! GET YOUR COPY NOW! Member RM50.00 PRICE: Non-Member RMIOO.OO Student Member RM30.00 Cheques, Money Orders, Postal Orders or Bank Drafts must accompany The Hon. Assistant Secretary local orders. Please add 80 sen for postage. For foreign orders, please GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF MALAYSIA send your purchase order. We will invoice you in your own currency. c/o Dept. of Geology, University of Malaya Orders should be addressed to: 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA Hydrocarbon-bearing fissure in the limestone of the Togopi Formation, Dent Peninsula, Sabah WAN HASIAH ABDULLAH AND LEE CHAI PENG Department of Geology University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Abstract: This study is a follow-up to the oil staining study reported in the previous issue of Warta Geologi (VoL 28 No.4, 2002). A dark stained fissure occurs in the limestone ofthe Togopi Formation within the study area striking almost perpendicular to the oil-stained band reported previously. A brief organic geochemical characteristic of this limestone fissure is presented here and compared to the previously reported sample. A comparison is also made to a non-stained
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