This information has been developed from one or more of these publications:
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Location: | Balcombe – 350565. Five kilometres west of Bittern. | Folded Ordovician sediments at Hunts Road Quarry, Site 46. |
Access: | Hunts Road. | |
Ownership: | Private land. | |
Geology: | An abandoned quarry exposes a highly silicified slate interbedded with quartzite. The beds are folded into a northerly plunging anticline. | |
Significance: | Regional. This is one of the best exposures of folded structures in Ordovician strata in the Westernport Bay catchment. | |
Management: | Class 2. Filling or reclamation of the quarry should not be permitted as this would obscure the significant outcrops. |