Lawson, Australian Capital Territory

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Lawson Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Population:	N/A (2001 census)
Established:	N/A
Postcode:	2617
Property Value:	AUD N/A
District:	Belconnen
Suburbs around Lawson McKellar Giralang Kaleen Kaleen Lawson McKellar Belconnen Bruce Bruce

Lawson is a suburb in the Canberra district of Belconnen. The postcode is 2617. It does not have any suburban houses, consisting only of part of Lake Ginninderra, the Belconnen Naval radio station, and an open area of grassland where there is a reservoir and substation. A bicycle path runs alongside Ginninderra Drive, another along the shore of the lake. The area is surrounded by Baldwin Drive, William Slim Drive and Ginninderra Drive. It lies next to the suburbs of McKellar, Giralang, Kaleen, Bruce and Belconnen.

[edit] Geology

Ordovician age Pittman Formation greywacke is in the far south and east including a band of Acton Shale. Then in the north west there are late Silurian sedimentary rocks. From the center mudstone, State Circle Shale, and then micaceous Black Mountain Sandstone that contains lenses of shale. On the west side of lake Ginninderra there is calcareous shale from the Canberra Formation in the north, Glebe Farm Adamellite intrusion in the center and a porphyry of Green-grey Dacitic intrusive containing large white Feldspar crystals in the south. A long fault that follows the east bank of the Lake Ginninderra, and Ginninderra Creek passes through Lawson in the north north west direction. It is likely that this fault has determined the location of the creek. The late Silurian sediments are to the east of the fault.

See also: Geology of the Australian Capital Territory