The Narooma Accretionary Complex or Narooma Terrane is a geological structural region on the south coast of New South Wales, Australia that is the remains of a subduction zone or an oceanic terrane. It can be found on the surface around Narooma, Batemans Bay and down south into Victoria near Mallacoota.
It has attached itself to the Lachlan Fold Belt and has been considered as either an exotic terrane or as a part of the fold belt. Rocks are turbidites, block in matrix mélange, chert, and volcanics. The accretionary complex itself could either be the toe of a subduction zone, or an accretionary prism.
It was moved by the Pacific Plate westwards for about 2500 km until it encountered the east coast of Gondwana.
It is part of the Mallacoota Zone according to Willman, which in turn is part of the Eastern Lachlan Fold Belt, which is part of the Benambra Terrane.
Mélange from Narooma
Narooma Chert from Australia Rock, Narooma
Narooma is a town in the Australian state of New South Wales on the far south coast. The town is on the Princes Highway, which crosses the Wagonga Inlet to North Narooma. The heritage town of Central Tilba is nearby to the south.
Bridge at Narooma on the Princes Highway
Narooma court house
The Uniting Church built 1914
The parsonage associated with Narooma's Uniting Church