Glenugie Peak

Glenugie Peak
Mountain
Glenugie Peak with Eastern Grey Kangaroos (at bottom left)
Country Australia
State New South Wales
Region Northern Rivers
City Grafton
River Coldstream River
Highest point
 - elevation 316 m (1,037 ft)
Biome eucalyptus forest & dry rainforest
Geology Dolerite
Period tertiary
Plant
Animal Eastern Grey Kangaroo

Glenugie Peak also known as Mount Elaine is situated near the Pacific Highway, south of the town of Grafton, New South Wales, Australia.

It is a dolerite peak[1] from the Tertiary period extruded from the Grafton Formation. The Grafton Formation is a series of sedimentary rocks, laid down between the late Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods.

Glenugie Peak is noted by botanists for the dry rainforest in a gully including rare species of trees. And the Yellow Box, which is more often associated with areas west of the Great Dividing Range.[2] Average annual rainfall is 1138 mm.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ A.G.Floyd Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia, Inkata Press 1989, ISBN 0-909605-57-2 page 76
  2. ^ "Secrets of a Basalt Hill". NSW Department of Industry and Investment. http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/aboutus/news/bush-telegraph-magazine/winter-2007/secrets-of-basalt-hill. 
  3. ^ A.G.Floyd Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia, Inkata Press 1989, ISBN 0-909605-57-2 page 76