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132. Mountain View - Valley Profile

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 - 030597. Five kilometres east of Poowong East.

Image: Sites of Significance Port Phillip Bay
Valley profiles and terracettes, Mountain View.

Access:

Mountain View Road.

Ownership:

Private land.

Geology/Geomorphology:

The valley slope of a tributary of the Lang Lang River display several changes in profile form. The upper slope is long and slightly convex and abruptly gives way to a steeper segment that fall to the valley floor. The floor is alluviated but the channel is incised into the alluvium and in places exposes the Mesozoic bedrock. The assemblage of slope forms is common in the higher areas of the South Gippsland Highlands, the valleys being symmetrical in profile and not displaying the influence of rock structure.

Significance:

Regional. The valley profile may be used as a basis to determine the denudational chronology of the South Gippsland Highlands.

Management:

Class 2. Extensive building works on the slopes or reservoir construction in the valley should not be permitted as this would obscure the significant features of the site.
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