This information has been developed from one or more of these publications:
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Location: | Spion Kopje – 933002. Fifteen kilometres west of Neerim. | Bunyip Gap (A), Tarago River (B), Tin Creek (C) |
Access: | Bunyip Road and Forest Road. | |
Ownership: | Crown Land. | |
Geology/Geomorphology: | The site is a low wind gap between Tin Creek, a tributary of the Bunyip River, and the Tarago River. The streams are on a similar alignment and probably follow a major joint system in the granite bedrock. The gap is an example of an incipient stream capture site as the stream channels are separated vertically by less than 30 metres. The gradient of Tin Creek is 1 in 9 compared with 1 in 28 for the Tarago River, so that a breaching of the divide would result in diversion of part of the Upper Tarago into the Bunyip stream system. | |
Significance: | Regional. The Bunyip gap is a prominent topographic feature and displays an unusually obvious example of incipient stream capture. | |
Management: | Class 3. The time scale for channel and valley change here in the order of thousands of years and changes in land use at this site will not seriously reduce its significance. |
Bunyip Gap |