This information has been developed from one or more of these publications:
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Location: | Catani - 865662. Five hundred metres east of the Western Port Road at Heath Hill. | |
Access: | Western Port Road. | |
Ownership: | Private land. | |
Geology: | A quarry provides exposures of heavily ferruginised cross-bedded sands and gravels with carbonised fragments and large clay pellets and lumps. Jenkin (1962) mapped these as sub-basaltic and overlying the Mesozoic, but they were re-interpreted by Thompson (1974) as Baxter Formation and therefore post-dating the Older Volcanic. | |
Significance: | Regional. The site provides a major exposure of the sediments with a substantial vertical and horizontal section being exposed in several of the quarry faces. | |
Management: | Class 3. As the upper quarry faces are easily and safely accessible, the general principles of quarry management outlined, apply to this site. |