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LOCATION
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Address Brachina Gorge FLINDERS RANGES
Locality
Accuracy H - high level confidence
Council Area Land Not Within a Council Area (Flinders)
Polygon Type S - parcel that has been split (because it has more than one heritage item on it
DESCRIPTION
Details (Known As) Impact Ejecta Horizon Late Precambrian Shales Geological Site, Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park
Registered Name Late Precambrian Shales
Significance This site in Brachina Gorge is part of a solitary layer of shattered rock fragments that has been traced over a distance of 260km within folded 600 million year old Precambrian marine shales in the Flinders Ranges. The very thin layer, averaging 10cm in thickness, contains gritty grains and pebbles of volcanic rock. This debris (known as impact ejecta) is the result of the collision of an asteroid or comet into the Gawler Range Volcanics, some 300 km to the west of the Flinders Ranges which created Lake Acraman (registered place 14454). This ancient ejecta blanket of known source can provide valuable information on the nature and effects of large terrestrial impacts and the Acraman impact is distinguished as the only major terrestrial impact structure with widely distributed coarse ejecta still preserved. (Adapted from HB Assessment File and Geological Monuments in South Australia, item FR.36)
Subject Index Landscape area - Geological Site
Class State
STATUS
Status Code REG - Confirmed as a State Heritage Place in the SA Heritage Register
Status Date 04-MAR-1993
REFERENCE
LGA Unincorporated SA
State Heritage ID 14453
Heritage Number 76
SECTION 16 INFORMATION
Section 16
PLAN PARCEL & TITLE
As listed in the SA Heritage Register
Plan Parcel & Title Information CR 6228/876 D93043 Q68

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