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Rock Textures

Royal Park Railway Cutting

On top of the cutting


Ochre coloured rock/dust compared to redder dust from on top of Tertiary Pliocene Red Bluff Sands


Background research on the Royal Park Railway Cutting

The cutting took place in 1882, and was created by hand with a pickaxe, which cuttings can still be seen in the rock today. The darker, top part of the rock is the Red Bluff Sands, covers the lighter mineral at the bottom, made up of the solidified older tertiary lava flow. The lava flow has now become a soft clay, and the red bluff sands are coarse sandstone. The soft clay also contains olivine, a mineral found in this type of basalt rock. (Source)

Royal Park (Quor-nóng) is on the unceded land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. Always was always will be.