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Description:
Flat lying, thinly bedded, sandy limestone of the Oligocene-Miocene Torquay Group nonconformably overlying basalt of the Oligocene Angahook Formation, exposed at the base of the sea stack in foreground. Split Point, Vic.
| Capture Date: | June 17, 2015, 11:07 a.m. |
| Latitude: | -38.46838000000 degrees |
| Longitude: | 144.10677000000 degrees |
| Elevation: | 1.000 metres |
| Visualisation Type: | FSP |
| Location Accuracy: | 5 metres |
Keywords:
- basalt
- limestone
- nonconformity
- sedimentology
- volcanology
- spheroidal weathering
| limestone | |
|---|---|
| Form Type: | bedded |
| Description: | thinly bedded sandy limestone |
| Min Geological Age: | Miocene |
| Max Geological Age: | Oligocene |
| Min Numerical Age: | 5.300 |
| Max Numerical Age: | 2.800 |
| Strat No: | 18441 |
| Supergroup: | |
| Group: | Torquay Group |
| Subgroup: | |
| Formation: | |
| Member: | |
| Province: | Torquay Sub Basin |
| basalt | |
|---|---|
| Form Type: | |
| Description: | dark grey basalt displaying spheroidal weathering. |
| Min Geological Age: | Oligocene |
| Max Geological Age: | Oligocene |
| Min Numerical Age: | 28.500 |
| Max Numerical Age: | 28.900 |
| Strat No: | 432 |
| Supergroup: | |
| Group: | Demons Bluff Group |
| Subgroup: | |
| Formation: | Angahook Formation |
| Member: | |
| Province: |