You Yangs
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The You Yangs are a series of granite ridges that rise up to 343 m above the flat and low-lying Werribee Plain in southern Victoria, Australia, approximately 5 km due west of the rural town of Little
The You Yangs viewed from the south, with Avalon Airport in the foreground
You Yangs panorama, Spring 2024
View of the Bunjil geoglyph from Flinders Peak
The You Yangs as seen from Werribee Racecourse, 2017
Inselberg
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An inselberg or monadnock is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain. If the inselberg is dome-shaped and f
You Yangs
…Little River flows around the ranges to the north and east. Contrary to popular belief, the You Yangs are not the remains of a volcano. They are an inselberg or monadnock, and the granite that forms them was originally a mass of magma that had worked its way up into the surrounding sedimentary rocks during…
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