The Victorian naturalist . Figure INepean Peninsula. July, 1975 133. nt, within the area of downwarping. Dur-ing the past milHon years these crustalmovements have continued, and in-deed there are still earthquakes in thePort Phillip region, some of whichhave been traced to movements alongfaults. The Mornington earthquake of1932 was due to a displacement alongSelwyn Fault, the alignment of whichpasses from Frankston to McCrae andthence southward through the Nepean Peninsula to emerge on the oceanshore just west of Cape Schanck. During Pleistocene times the sunk-land created by these crustal mov

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The Victorian naturalist . Figure INepean Peninsula. July, 1975 133. nt, within the area of downwarping. Dur-ing the past milHon years these crustalmovements have continued, and in-deed there are still earthquakes in thePort Phillip region, some of whichhave been traced to movements alongfaults. The Mornington earthquake of1932 was due to a displacement alongSelwyn Fault, the alignment of whichpasses from Frankston to McCrae andthence southward through the Nepean Peninsula to emerge on the oceanshore just west of Cape Schanck. During Pleistocene times the sunk-land created by these crustal move-ments became a marine embaymenton the site of Port Phillip Bay atstages of relatively high sea level,and drained out as a coastal lowlandwhen sea level fell. As the sea with-drew, the ancestral Yarra River ex-tended its course, and was joined by

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