SA Wine Guide 2025

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Younger than 500 million years LEGEND

Burnham Limestone

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Marino

Water

Holocene (11 700 years to present day) SEMAPHORE SAND MEMBER: Quartz beach sand SEMAPHORE SAND MEMBER: Coastal dune sand Beach gravel

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Unconsolidated sand dunes, drapes and spreads

Talus gravel, sand and clay Alluvial sand in active stream channels Alluvial clay of raised terraces of Onkaparinga River

Happy Valley Reservoir

Alluvial clay of valleys

Hallett Cove

Pleistocene (2.6 million to 11 700 years)

OCHRE COVE FORMATION: Iron-mottled pebbly sandstone KURRAJONG FORMATION: Clayey sand and silica-cemented conglomerate BURNHAM LIMESTONE: Fine-grained limestone PIRRAMIMMA SANDSTONE and SEAFORD FORMATION: Yellow and buff sandstone, pebbly sandstone, clay NGALTINGA FORMATION: Grey and red mottled clay; commonly capped with calcrete CHRISTIES BEACH FORMATION: Alluvial fan clay, sand and gravel

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Pliocene (5.3 to 2.6 million years)

Clarendon

HALLETT COVE SANDSTONE: Calcareous fossiliferous sandstone

Lonsdale

Iron-cemented surface on bedrock

Oligocene (34 to 23 million years) PORT WILLUNGA FORMATION: Fossiliferous limestone

Mount Bold

SOUTH MOUNT LOFTY RANGES

Reservoir

Eocene (56 to 34 million years)

O'Sullivan Beach

Carboniferous–Permian (c. 300 million years) CAPE JERVIS FORMATION: Pebbly and bouldery claystone; sandy, laminated claystone with dropstones NORTH MASLIN and SOUTH MASLIN SANDS: Cross-bedded medium and coarse-grained sand BLANCHE POINT FORMATION: Glauconitic, fossiliferous calcareous siltstone; hard cherty bands; glauconitic TORTACHILLA LIMESTONE at base Iron-cemented sand (?NORTH MASLIN SAND)

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Baker Gully

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MCLAREN FLAT ROAD Kangarilla

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Port Noarlunga

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Sand

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Blewitt Springs

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KNOTTS HILL ROAD

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Old Noarlunga

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Ochre Point

Rocla North

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Maslin Beach

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Blanche Point

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Port Willunga

Older than 500 million years LEGEND

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Snapper Point

DELAMERIAN OROGENY: Folding and cleavage formation, c. 500 million years Barite vein Quartz vein NORMANVILLE GROUP: c. 520 million years FORK TREE LIMESTONE: Pale grey limestone with archaeocyaths HEATHERDALE SHALE: Dark grey, slaty siltstone with black phosphate nodules

Willunga

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Burnham Limestone

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SELLICK HILL FORMATION: Dark grey, ribboned, silty limestone WANGKONDA FORMATION: Massive, dark grey limestone

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MOUNT TERRIBLE FORMATION: Arkosic grit, overlain by siltstone and sandstone

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WILPENA GROUP: c. 600 million years BUNYEROO FORMATION: Maroon, fine-grained siltstone ABC RANGE QUARTZITE: White, cross-bedded quartzite

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PORT STANVAC SANDSTONE MEMBER: Laminated and cross-bedded red sandstone

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SEACLIFF SANDSTONE: Pale grey and red sandstone, quartzite and red siltstone BRACHINA FORMATION: Red and green siltstone and fine-grained sandstone NUCCALEENA FORMATION: Laminated pink dolomite UMBERATANA GROUP: c. 650 million years REYNELLA SILTSTONE MEMBER: Mostly massive siltstone with small rock fragments

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Silver Sands

ELATINA FORMATION: Pink-brown sandstone with red granule bands

TAPLEY HILL FORMATION: Calcareous siltstone and sandstone; intraclastic and stromatolitic limestone BRIGHTON LIMESTONE: Massive oolitic limestone WILMINGTON FORMATION: Massive, green-grey, fine-grained sandstone Laminated to rippled, grey to green siltstone MARINO ARKOSE: Lime-cemented, gritty arkose and minor limestone ANGEPENA FORMATION: Rippled, mud-cracked, red siltstone; fine-grained sandstone Dark grey, very thinly laminated, slaty siltstone TINDELPINA SHALE MEMBER: Laminated, pyritic, black shale and dolomite

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STURT TILLITE: Massive, cleaved, pebbly and boulder siltstone (diamictite)

Gritty arkose lenses

Sandstone layers Laminated siltstone layers

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285000 BURRA GROUP: c. 750 million years BELAIR SUBGROUP: Laminated, grey siltstone Quartzite layers MITCHAM QUARTZITE: Massive, coarse-grained, feldspathic quartzite 286000 287000 288000 289000 STONYFELL QUARTZITE: Feldspathic quartzite, sandstone, siltstone SADDLEWORTH FORMATION: Laminated dark grey and green siltstone Quartzite layers PALAEOPROTEROZOIC BASEMENT (c. 1600 million years) BAROSSA COMPLEX: Gneiss, schist ALDGATE SANDSTONE: Feldspathic, pebbly sandstone; heavy mineral cross-laminations MONTACUTE DOLOMITE: Blue-grey, thinly bedded dolomite with black chert lenses WOOLSHED FLAT SHALE: Laminated and sandy grey-green siltstone Brecciated WOOLSHED FLAT SHALE

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Geological boundary and fault

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Vineyard Mclaren Vale Wine Region Aldinga Scrub Conservation Park

Water storage Sand or clay pit Winery

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Roads Secondary road Track

Conformable contact Intrusive contact Erosional contact Concealed fault Fault

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GEOLOGY OF THE McLAREN VALE WINE REGION

Source: McLaren Vale Grape Wine & Tourism Association

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