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Location: | Tarago - 043891. Two kilometres south-east of Jindivik. | Columnar basalt (A), weathered tuff (B), weathered basalt (C) - Jindivik Quarry. |
Access: | Quarry Road off Main Jindivik Road. | |
Ownership: | Private land. | |
Geomorphology: | This abandoned quarry provides an extensive section in the Tertiary Older Volcanics. At least three eruptive phases are observable. A thick, strongly jointed dense basalt overlies a weathered tuff band up to two metres thick, and this rests on another basalt lava flow which has closely spaced vertical and horizontal joints. This lower flow is deeply weathered resulting in small, residual, spheroidal corestones. | |
Significance: | Regional. This quarry provides a clear example of the range of materials which comprise the Older Volcanics including lava flows and tuffs. | |
Management: | Class 2. The general principles of quarry management stated apply here. In this quarry the best preserved sections are on the south-east and south-west faces and it is recommended that any future land reclamation works not be permitted to obscure these exposures. Any future working of the quarry should retain a section similar to those now available. |