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LOCATION
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Address KINGSCOTE
Locality
Accuracy H - high level confidence
Council Area Kangaroo Island Council
Polygon Type B - Building footprint
DESCRIPTION
Details (Known As) Old Government Quarry
Registered Name Geological Monument - Old Government Quarry
Significance This small disused quarry cut into the coastal cliffs at Kingscote provides excellent exposures of 170million year old basalt unconformably overlying Permian glacial and river-deposited sediments. This site provides important evidence of basaltic volcanic activity along Australia's southern continental margin during the initial stages of the rifting between Australian and Antarctica c170 million years ago. It also provides evidence of the Permian glaciation which affected large areas of Australia at a time when it still formed part of Gondwanaland, c270-280 million years ago. Stone from this quarry is believed to have been used to build road linking the Old Port Road at today's Albert Park to the 'new' Port Adelaide in 1839-40. (SHB Assessment Report).
Subject Index Landscape area - Geological Site; Mining and mineral processing - Quarry
Class State
STATUS
Status Code REG - Confirmed as a State Heritage Place in the SA Heritage Register
Status Date 27-SEP-1990
REFERENCE
LGA Kangaroo Island
State Heritage ID 14039
Heritage Number 16034
SECTION 16 INFORMATION
Section 16
PLAN PARCEL & TITLE
As listed in the SA Heritage Register
Plan Parcel & Title Information CR 5524/86 H110800 S445,CR 5524/87 H110800 S446,CR 5524/88 H110800 S466,CR 5756/688 H110800 S490

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