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Natural system processes - Coggle Diagram

- - - - features:
        
        entrenched meander, former floodplain, high round hill, inner gorge, natural bridge
      - caused by uplift of land surfaces or sea level rise or fall
    - - https://www.clw.csiro.au/publications/consultancy/2003/Victorian_Volcanic_Plains_Scoping.pdf
      - formed over ~5 million years (excursion guide)
      - https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Newer-Volcanics-Province-of-southeastern-Australia-showing-eruption-centres-lava_fig1_271520814
        
        image of volcanoes
        
        scoria cone + lava shields in the local region
      - early pliocene to holocene epochs = when volcanic activity that formed the newer volcanics group took place. (csiro)
      - landscape is dominated by basalt, an extrusive igneous rock with small grain size due to it's rapid cooling. This is due to it being situated in the VVP.
      - extensive quaternary basalt plain (
    - - headwaters in macedon ranges, where vertical erosion occurs cutting down until it eventually reaches the lower course of the river, where BP is situated where the floodplain widens and alluvial meanders.