The Victorian naturalist . rne. 132 Vict. Nat. Vol. 92 here included phases of both warmerand cooler climate than that nowexperienced; at times it was wetter,and at times drier than at present;there were phases when the windswere stronger and more consistentlywesterly than they are now, andphases when the wind regime wasweaker and more varied in attempting to reconstruct the geo-logical history of an area such as theNepean Peninsula it is necessary to beaware of these past variations in sealevel and climate. The prelude to the formation of theNepean Peninsula was a period ofinterm
The Victorian naturalist . rne. 132 Vict. Nat. Vol. 92 here included phases of both warmerand cooler climate than that nowexperienced; at times it was wetter,and at times drier than at present;there were phases when the windswere stronger and more consistentlywesterly than they are now, andphases when the wind regime wasweaker and more varied in attempting to reconstruct the geo-logical history of an area such as theNepean Peninsula it is necessary to beaware of these past variations in sealevel and climate. The prelude to the formation of theNepean Peninsula was a period ofintermittent warping and fracturing ofthe Earths crust in this part of Vic-toria spanning several million Peninsula to the east andthe Bellarine Peninsula to the westwere upHfted as a result of thesemovements, and the intervening areaof crustal depression became the PortPhillip basin; a structural featurecalled a sunkland. Selwyn Fault runsthrough the eastern side of the NepeanPeninsula (Fig. 1), which thus lies. Figure INepean Peninsula. July, 1975 133
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