Fieldtrip: Malaysia_Bahau

This is our first fieldtrip for UKM Student. It is 2 day trip where we travel by bus and stay overnight at Bahau town.


There are total 9 Localities visited during this fieldtrip.

1. Senaling

2. Jalan Dangi langkap

No Record



3. Jalan Felda Bukit Rokan

•Dark Grey carbonaceous quartz-chlorite-mica schist, characterized by crenulation or kink folds

•Strikes NNW

•Lower Carboniferous radiolaria

4. Felda Bukit Rokan Barat Housing

Serpentinite is usually strongly sheared, yellow and green colored and composed of antigorite and chrysolite

5.Jalan Kepis-Rompin

6.Bukit Jeram Padang

NW trending Bukit Jeram Padang Ridge consist of mainly sandstone and shale of Middle Triassic. Fossil of Bivalve, gastropod and arthropod preserved as mould and cast.

7. Km6 Gemas-Tampin

No Record

8. Yam Fong Quarry, Segamat

Segamat Basalt, together with Kuantan Basalt occur on the southern periphery of a great geographical field of rift related alkaline basalts that extend up to Hainan Island (Hutchinson,1989). K-Ar minimum age of these rock as reported by Bignell & Snelling (1997) is 62 Ma

The basalt that we visited is in an abandoned quarry.


The quarry now filled with water.

9. Ophir Quarry, Johor

an old photo of me & friends

I would like to thank my junior's for properly documenting their fieldtip. I had used the pictures and materials from their blog because i lack documenting awareness back then.

http://geomaira90.blogspot.com/2009/11/#.W1RfK9UzaUk
https://cheekylulu.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/