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8523-39 Turnback Peak

This information has been developed from the publications:

    • Sites of Geological and Geomorphological Significance in Central Gippsland (1981) by Neville Rosengren, M.S McRae-Williams and S.M Kraemers.
    • Sites of Geological and Geomorphological Significance in the Gippsland Lakes Catchment (1984) by Neville Rosengren.
    • Sites of Geological and Geomorphological Significance in East Gippsland, Victoria (1981) by Neville Rosengren, M.S McRae-Williams
Geological heritage sites, including sites of geomorphological interest and volcanic heritage sites, are under regular revision by the Geological Society of Australia, especially in the assessment of significance and values. Reference should be made to the most recent reports. See the Earth Science Heritage section of the Geological Society of Australia website for details of geological heritage reports, and a bibliography.


Location:
235952. 2 kilometres west of Mackillop Bridge.

Abstract:
Pre-basaltic gravels containing leaf impressions and a graptolite fossil site in Ordovician sediments.

Access:
Turnback Track.

Ownership:
Crown land.

Geology:
At Turnback Peak, high level river gravels underlie Tertiary Older Basalt. These contain materials up to boulder size as well as some layers of fine grained material within which leaf impressions occur. Ordovician sediments outcrop to the east of the peak and these contain occasional poorly preserved graptolites.

Significance:
Local.

Management:
The site could be degraded by over-collection of fossils or quarrying and alluvial mining of the pre-basaltic sediments.

References:
Ferguson, W.H. 1899. 'Report on silver-lead deposits, Murrindal River', Monthly Prog. Rep. Geol. Surv. Vict., Nos. 4 and 5 :19-20.
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