Deakin Anticline

This is a geological feature within the Yarralumla Formation, between the Deakin Oval and MacGregor Street, Deakin. A walking track from Hannah Place carpark behind the Deakin shops crosses the centre of the anticline.

The rocky formation of sandstone and siltstone was exposed during quarrying of clay shale for brickmaking at the nearby Yarralumla Brickworks in the 1940s and 1950s. It consists of two anticlines (upwards folds) with a syncline (downwards fold) between, dating from the late Middle Silurian period, approximately 400 million years ago. It is characteristic of the type of geological folding that occurred during the Silurian period in the ACT.

MORE INFORMATION

VIEW ONLINE	ACT Heritage Council, 2002. Deakin Anticline, ACT Heritage Register.
REQUEST BOOK	Geological Monuments in the Australian Capital Territory, 2^nd ed. Canberra: Geological Society of Australia for the Australian Heritage Commission, 1988, pp. 20-31. ACTHL Location: H 559.47 GEOL
VIEW ONLINE	National Trust of Australia (ACT), Deakin Anticline.