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Geological & Geomorphological Sites of Significance - Princetown

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Map:  Sites of Geological & Geomorphological Significance - Princetown Moonlight Head to Milanesia Beach Lion Headland to Slippery Point Dinosaur Cove Pebble Point (Point Margaret to Point Lucton) Simpson - Parallel Drainage Parallel Ridge and Valley (Pliocene Ridges) Gellibrand River - Confined Floodplain and Gorge Perched Lakes  - Sandy Creek Perched Lakes - Carlisle River Carlisle River Tributaries - Reference Catchments Gellibrand Marl - Type Section Point Ronald, Princetown Princetown - Relict Spits Lower Gellibrand - Gellibrand River Backswamp and Buried Spurs Chapple Creek Ford - Fossil Plants Aire River Structural Meander Aire River Gorge Racecourse Steps Browns Creek Rotten Point Castle Cove Aire River Mobile Dune and Buried Cliff Lake Hordern and Aire Floodplain Point Flinders Simpson - Landslip Carlise River - Gellibrand River Backswamp Kennedys Creek Swamp Gellibrand River - Levee and Backswamp Chapple Creek Backswamp Kennedsy Creek - Alluvial Section Fault Scarp and Incised Stream Gellibrand River Meanders Gellibrand River Valley Mt McKenzie Gellibrand River - Terrace Bunker Hill - Fault and Older Vocanic Basalt Carlisle River Erosion Terrace Carlisle River - High Level Lake Basalt Dyke Dry Valley - Carlisle River Carlisle River - Avulsion Channel Gellibrand River - High Level Prior Channel La Trobe Creek and Escarpment - Princetown Dilwyn Formation - Princetown Quarry Australites - Moonlight Head Gellibrand River confined floodplain - Burrupa Wattle Hill Colac Tree Road Johanna Falls Sandy Creek Triplet Falls Aire River Potholes Johanna Heights - Landslip Amphitheatres Aire River Entrenched Meander Johanna River Floodplain Johanna Dune Spud Point Eagle Nest Rock, Sentinel Rock and Aire Calcarenites Fishing Point Aire River - Hordern Vale Hamilton Creek and Hordern Vale Kennedys Creek - Landslip Terraces [

Geological & Geomorphological Sites of Significance - Princetown

International SignificanceLocal Significance15.5 Colac Tree Road
22.1 Moonlight Head to Milanesia Beach2.1 Tomahawk Creek15.6 Johanna Falls
22.2 Lion Headland to Slippery Point4.1 Gellibrand River Tributary16.1 Sandy Creek
23.4 Dinosaur Cove6.2 Simpson - Landslip16.2 Triplet Falls
7.5 Carlisle River - Gellibrand River Backswamp16.3 Aire River "Potholes"
National Significance7.6 Kennedys Creek Swamp16.6 Johanna Heights - Landslip Amphitheatres
14.8 Pebble Point (Point Margaret to Point Lucton)8.3 Gellibrand River - Levee and Backswamp17.4 Aire River Entrenched Meanders
15.1 Chapple Creek Backswamp22.3 Johanna River Floodplain
State Significance23.1 Johanna Dune
6.1 Simpson - Parallel DrainageRegional Significance23.6 Spud Point
7.4 Parallel Ridge and Valley (Pliocene Ridges)2.2 Tomahawk Creek Terrace23.7 Eagle Nest Rock, Sentinel Rock & Aire Calcarenites
7.7 Gellibrand River - Confined Floodplain and Gorge3.1 Tomahawk Creek Tributary23.10 Fishing Point
7.8 A/B Perched Lakes - Sandy Creek7.1 Kennedys Creek - Alluvial Section23.11 Aire River - Hordern Vale
8.9 A/B Perched Lakes - Carlisle River7.2 Kennedys Creek - Landslip Terrraces24.1 Hamilton Creek & Hordern Vale
8.10 A/B Carlisle River Tributaries - Reference Catchments7.3 Fault Scarp and Incised Stream
14.2 Gellibrand Marl - Type Section7.9 Gellibrand River Meanders
14.3 Point Ronald, Princetown7.10 Gellibrand River Valley
14.4 Princetown - Relict Spits7.11 Mt McKenzie
14.5 Gellibrand River Levee Banks - Princetown8.1 Gellibrand River - Terrace
14.7 Lower Gellibrand - Gellibrand River Backswamp & Buried Spurs8.2 Bunker Hill - Fault and Older Volcanic Basalt
15.2 Chapple Creek Ford - Fossil Plants8.4 Carlisle River - Erosion Terrace
16.4 Aire River Structural Meander8.5 Carlisle River - High Level Lake
16.5 Aire River Gorge8.6 Basalt Dyke
21.1 Racecourse Steps8.7 Dry Valley - Carlisle River
23.2 Browns Creek8.8 Carlisle River - Avulsion Channel
23.3 Rotten Point9.1 Gellibrand River - High level prior channel
23.5 Castle Cove14.1 La Trobe Creek and Escarpment - Princetown
23.8 Aire River Mobile Dune and Buried Cliff14.6 Dilwyn Formation - Princetown Quarry
23.9 Lake Hordern and Aire Floodplain14.9 Australites - Moonlight Head
23.12 Point Flinders15.3 Gellibrand River Confined Floodplain - Burrupa
15.4 Wattle Hill
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