stanthorpe

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The high country around Stanthorpe, with its characteristic rounded granite boulders and monoliths is a distinctive part of Queensland. Originally settled by squatters pressing north from the New England tableland, later prospected by tin, metal, and gold miners, then taken up for fruit growing by soldier settlers and Italian migrants, it is now well known for its fruit, vegetables, vineyards, and winter tourism. Geologically it is a northern extension of the New England Tableland of New South Wales. In summary, old hard sedimentary rocks (‘traprock’) of the Texas Beds make up the western part of the district, whilst farther east large bodies of molten granitic magma have invaded the older rocks and slowly cooled at great depths to form the Stanthorpe Granite and other granites. The granites have been later revealed at the surface by erosion of the overlying older rocks, and erosion of them has contributed sands and gravels to broad river plains to the north. These resulting sedimentary rocks are some of the first of the Clarence-Moreton Basin. Source: mysd.com.au/fieldnats/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/05...