Everything about Acton Australian Capital Territory totally explained
Acton (
postcode: 2601) is a suburb of
Canberra,
Australian Capital Territory,
Australia. Acton covers an area west of the CBD, bordered by Black Mountain to the west and
Lake Burley Griffin in the south. The
Australian National University campus covers most of the suburb, though also located in Acton is
National Film and Sound Archive, a branch of the
CSIRO and the
National Museum of Australia.
The population of Acton on census night 2001 was 1846 people, mostly students living at the Australian National University.
Acton was named in approximately 1843 by Lieutenant Arthur Jeffreys, RN, after a town in
Denbighshire,
Wales. The name of the area was kept as the suburb name when Canberra was built.
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Geology
The southern part of Acton has a complicated arrangement of
sediments that include the Pittman Formation
greywacke and the black coloured Acton Shale Member from the
Ordovician age. Then from the
Silurian age there's mudstone, State Circle Shale, and Camp Hill Sandstone. Some limestone is found near the National Museum of Australia.
Calcareous
shales from the Canberra Formation are overlain by Quaternary alluvium on the north. This rock is the limestone of the original title of Canberra "Limestone Plains". Tertiary age pebbly gravels are left from when the Molonglo river was at a higher level.
Geology of the Australian Capital Territory covers more of the geology of the ACT.
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