Yarra Bends Park: Galatea Point

Weathering:

• precipitation - flooding, chemical weathering.
• temperature - physical weathering
• wind - erosion at sites 1&3
• High rainfall on the day affected various observations.

Yarra Bend Park: Galatea Point

By: Patricia Feraud, Alice Gage-Brown, and Christian Nagorcka

Site 1

• Elevation is greater compared to the other sites
• More of mixture of both sites
• Woodland

Sites Comparisons

References

Site 3

Site 2

Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology, (2013), viewed 28 March 2014 http://www.bom.gov.au/

Chanda, (2012), Tasmania-Barbie with Possums, viewed 5 May, Retrieved from http://chandita.me/tag/possums/

Department of Primary Industries, Earth Resources, Melbourne and Suburbs 1: 31 680 (1959), viewed 11 April, Retrieved from http://dpistore.efirst.com.au/product.asp?pID=725&cID=58

Feraud, P., Gage-Brown, A., & Nagorcka, C., (2014), Photos of Yarra Bend Park

Google Earth, (2014), Map of Yarra Bend Park, https://www.google.com.au/maps/preview?q=yarra+bend+park&ie=UTF-8&ei=tqlsU9MCitGUBaOhgMgM&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ

Hapalochlaena, (2011), Yet Another Tentacled Thing, viewed 5 May, Retrieved from

http://hapalochlaena.wordpress.com/2011/05/25/magpies/

• It's closer to the Urban area
• Mostly sediments
• Have the most obvious human influences
• low-open woodland

• Flat landforms
• Most vegetation
• Mostly basaltic soils
• Low-open forst

HUMAN IMPACT

VEGETATION/FAUNA

Possums

Expected To See:

QUESTIONS?

290 species of indigenous plants

• Tall shrubs and climbers
• Low shrubs
• Sedges
• Lilies
• Rushes and grasses
• Herbs including daisies

Background Research

(Chanda, 2012)

Trees

Magpies

(hapalochlaena.wordpress.com, 2011)

(Feraud et al, 2014)

Soils

EXPECTED TO SEE:

Shrubs

Grasses + Plants

Background Research:

402 reported animal species in the Yarra area

• 178 species of birds
• 123 species of fishes
• 14 species of mammals
• Gray--headed flying foxes
• Possums
• 87 species of Others

(Feraud et al, 2014)

• Mudstone Sedimentary
• Basalt

(Feraud et al, 2014)

Mudstone Sediments

HYDROLOGY

Landscape:

Site 1

Site 3

Man-Made/Place Soil

Basaltic soils

CLIMATE

Site 3

NORTH

Site 1

Site 2

Site 3

NORTH

WEST

Info about soils (Parks Victoria, 2014)

EAST

All photos (Feraud et al, 2014)

WEST

Date: May 4, 2014

Time: 11am-1pm

Temperature: 16° C (low: 8°)

Wind: Mild wind

Weather: Mild Precipitation

EAST

MOST TO LEAST

(Google Weather, 2014)

Site

EAST

Site

Soil drainage

WEST

Erosion due to water movement

Major influencing factors

Effects of climate

Slope

Human impact

Soil type

Vegetation

SITE 1

(Feraud et al, 2014)

Yarra River

SITE 3

From the Bureau of Meteorology

(Department of Sustainability and Environment, 2014)

SOUTH

SITE 2

SOUTH

(Bureau of Meteorology, 2014)

(Google weather, 2014)

All photos: (Feraud et al, 2014

Yarra Bend Park:

Galatea Point

Key

Sites

Location: UTM

Map 2 (Department of Primary Industries, 2014)

Site 1: Zone 55H E0324284 S5814402

Map 1 (Google Earth, 2014)

Site 2: Zone 55H E03245456 S5814616

Geological Map

Site 3: Zone 55H E0329131 S5814258

(Feraud, Gage-Brown, & Nagorcka, 2014)

(Department of Primary Industries,1959)