This information has been developed from one or more of these publications:
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Location: | Devon Meadows – 538780. The cutting for the railway south-east of Clyde railway station. | |
Access: | Ballarto Toad. | |
Ownership: | Crown Land. | |
Geology: | The railway cutting provides a geological section into the Baxter Sandstone, a series of fine grained clayey sands and sandy clays with occasional lenses of coarser sand and fine gravels. The beds belong to the Baxter Sandstone (Jenkin, 1962), later described as the Baxter Formation by Thompson (1974). To the south the beds overlie weathered Older Volcanics. | |
Significance: | Regional. The cutting provides one of the few sections in the Baxter Formation, one of the main Tertiary rock formations of the Westernport Bay catchment. | |
Management: | Class 2. Construction work that would obscure the cutting should not be permitted. | |
References: | Jenkin, J.J. (1962). The geology and hydrogeology of the Westernport area. Dept. of Mines, Vict. Underground Water Investigation Rept. No. 4. Thompson, B.R. (1974). The geology and hydrogeology of the Westernport sunklands. Geol. Surf. Rept. 1974/1. |