Cape Hauy (Totem Pole and Candlestick)
A headland of columnar Jurassic dolerite on the Tasman Peninsula in south-east Tasmania, ending in sea stacks: the Totem Pole, a column about 65 m tall, and the Candlestick. The dolerite was intruded about 182 million years ago as Gondwana began to break apart.
Dated events and their evidence
- about 182,000,000 years ago mainstream
Tasmania's dolerite sills, the rock of Cape Hauy, are intruded about 182 million years ago in the Jurassic, the same age as the Ferrar sills and lavas of Antarctica source - 1968 CE mainstream
John Ewbank and Allan Keller make the first ascent of the Totem Pole source
Where
43.1394° S, 148.0058° E
The point is the Totem Pole (Wikipedia: 43°08'22" S, 148°00'21" E), at the tip of the cape.
Sources
- https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/EGU2020-3281.html
- https://shapingtasmania.tmag.tas.gov.au/object.aspx?ID=47
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totem_Pole_(Tasmania)
- https://ozgeology.com/blogs/news/cape-hauy-a-geological-wonder-in-tasmania
- https://ozgeology.com/blogs/news/a-geological-wonder-in-tasmania-cape-hauy
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