Dights Falls

37°47′50″S 145°00′03″E / 37.79722°S 145.00083°E / -37.79722; 145.00083

Dights Falls on the Yarra River, Abbotsford
Dights Falls on the Yarra River showing the silurian sandstone hillside

Dights Falls is a rapid and weir on the Yarra River in Melbourne, Victoria, just downstream of the junction with the Merri Creek. At this point the river narrows and is constricted between 800,000-year-old volcanic, basaltic lava flow and a much older steep, silurian, sedimentary spur. The north side also contains abundant graptolite fossils in sedimentary sandstone.[1][2]

  1. ^ Merri Creek Geological Sites: Site 1 Studley Park/Dights Falls, Kew - Melbourne Formation, retrieved 29 March 2011
  2. ^ Yarra Bend Park - Geology (PDF), Park Notes, Parks Victoria, November 2007, archived from the original (PDF) on 29 March 2011, retrieved 2011-03-31