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144. Grantville - Beach Ridges

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:

Grantville - 726500. Two kilometres north of Grantville.

Access:

Bass Highway.

Ownership:

Private land and some Crown Land.

Geomorphology:

Several small sand ridges converge towards the south at the base of the Heath Hill Fault scarp. The landward edge of the ridges is marked by a low bluff which is a former marine cliff cut into slope foot colluvium.

Significance:

Local. The site is one of the few areas of coastal sand ridge accumulation on the eastern side of Westernport Bay.

Management:

Class 2. Extensive levelling of the terrain should not be permitted as this would obscure the pattern of sand ridges and the low bluff.
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