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Well... it WAS
peaceful in Deniliquin !
Another
road train thunders
through, just seconds later.
On the road back to
Moama... now THIS is more like it !
Had
to put this one
in :o)
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of years ago the Murray flowed north of Echuca, along the course
of what is today called Green Gully. It was the Goulburn River
that flowed through what is now Echuca. Tectonic activity caused
the land to the west of the present Barmah-Millewa Forest to be
uplifted by between 8 and 12 metres along a north-south fault
line, sloping back down to the west (the Cadell Tilt Block). The
Cadell Fault Line runs between Deniliquin and Moama. The same
fault may continue south from Echuca to, say, Runnymeade (Lake
Cooper and Green Lake lay immediately east of this fault). The
westward course of the Murray was blocked and a huge lake formed
as a result. Earth movements along this fault are still occurring.
The uplift was thought to have occurred about 16,000 years ago,
give or take a few thousand years.
Borrowed from this
page which has lots of very interesting information about this
area...
definitely worth
checking out. It explains the photo above.
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The trees in
the photo below are growing along the edge of the fault line.
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