Hume is a suburb of Canberra, and is adjacent to the
District of Jerrabomberra in New South Wales.The suburb is named after the explorer
Hamilton Hume
Hamilton Hume (19 June 1797 – 19 April 1873) was an early explorer of the present-day Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria (Australia), Victoria. In 1824, along with William Hovell, Hume participated in an expedition that first t ...
and streets are named after Australian industrialists and businessmen.
Hume is a light-industrial suburb and there is no significant housing development. At the , Hume had a population of 395,
[ up from six in 2006,][
]
Geology
Deakin Volcanics from the Silurian
The Silurian ( ) is a geologic period and system spanning 23.5 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at million years ago ( Mya), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, Mya. The Silurian is the third and shortest period of t ...
period underlie Hume. Cream and purple rhyodacite
Rhyodacite is a volcanic rock intermediate in composition between dacite and rhyolite. It is the extrusive equivalent of those plutonic rocks that are intermediate in composition between monzogranite and granodiorite. Rhyodacites form from rapid ...
are found in the south and including Tralee, New South Wales
Tralee is a suburb in the Queanbeyan–Palerang Regional Council local government area, abutting the border with the Australian Capital Territory and south west of the city of Queanbeyan, New South Wales. It is immediately south of Environa, th ...
. A mixture of purple and green tuff
Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into a solid rock. Rock that contains greater than 75% ash is considered tuff, while rock co ...
, ashstone, shale
Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of Clay mineral, clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g., Kaolinite, kaolin, aluminium, Al2Silicon, Si2Oxygen, O5(hydroxide, OH)4) and tiny f ...
, and coarse sandstone
Sandstone is a Clastic rock#Sedimentary clastic rocks, clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of grain size, sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate mineral, silicate grains, Cementation (geology), cemented together by another mineral. Sand ...
is in the north east. Coarse dark purple rhyodacite is in the north end near Queanbeyan turn off.[Henderson G A M and Matveev G, Geology of Canberra, Queanbeyan and Environs 1:50000 1980.]
See also
* Mugga Lane Solar Park
Footnotes
References
Place names search, Geoscience Australia
Suburbs of Canberra
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