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4. Seven Acre Rock - Granite Outcrop

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:Beenak – 900028. Seventeen kilometres west of Nayook.

Access:

Learmonth Creek Road via Turner Road, then 600 metres along a marked walking track.

Ownership:

Crown Land.

Geology/Geomorphology:

The site includes four separate areas of outcrop of Tynong Granite. The areas include treeless rock slabs and granite tors several metres high.

Significance:

Regional. This is on of the few extensive areas of tor exposure on the Tynong Granite.

Management:

Class 2. No quarrying or removal of the granite exposures should be permitted.
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