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131. Tetoora Road - Mesozoic and Tertiary Outcrops

This information has been developed from one or more of these publications:

  • Sites of Geological and Geomorphological Significance in the Westernport Bay Catchment (1984) by Neville Rosengren.
  • Sites of Geological and Geomorphological Significance in the Western Region of Melbourne (1986) by Neville Rosengren
  • Sites of Geological and Geomorphological Significance on the Coast of Port Phillip Bay (1988) by Neville Rosengren.
  • Sites of Environmental Significance in the Flood Plain of the Upper Yarra Valley Region (1983) by Neville Rosengren, Douglas Frood and Kim Lowe (as part of a study of Sites of Environmental Significance by the University of Melbourne for the then Upper Yarra Valley and Dandenong Ranges Authority).
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Location:

Mount Worth - 024627. Fifteen kilometres south of Warragul.

Access:

Lardners Track.

Ownership:

Crown Land and private land.

Geology:

Grey mudstone taken from roadside cuttings of Lardners Tract have yielded plant impressions of the Zone 'C',
Gingkoites australis zone (Douglas, 1969). The hillcrest to the south-west of the Lardners Track junction with the Warragul-Korumburra road is capped with Childers Formation sediments which are exposed in a small quarry.

Significance:

Regional. The site is one of few documented Mesozoic fossil localities in the Westernport region.

Management:

Class 2. Changes in land use will not alter the significant features at the site.
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