This information has been developed from the publications:
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Location: | 25-295028. Two kilometres south-west of Marengo. | Former platform (A) at rear of the cliff at The Blowhole. |
Access: | Coastal walk from Marengo. | |
Ownership: | Crown land and private land. | |
Geomorphology: | An active blowhole is not obvious at this site. The feature of interest is a cliff and bench, above which is a degraded bluff backed by a narrow terrace. On the higher terrace, there are rounded cobbles and boulders. These suggest that the terrace is an emerged sea floor or platform, with boulder beach deposits. | |
Significance: | State. The site is of considerable importance in the analysis of Pleistocene sea level changes. The details of the sequence of emerged shoreline features has yet to be researched. |
Rounded cobbles on higher terrace surface at the rear of The Blowhole. | Sites 25.1 to 25.5 |