RIVER TERRACES OF THE MARIBYRNONG RIVER, VICTORIA 
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FIG. 7. 
Map showing Yarra Delta, Wave Platform at Hampton, and Banks formerly submerged at 
Altona. 
formed. It is covered with comminuted shells, mainly mussels, 
which may belong to the period of eustatic rise of sea level, or, 
as some maintain, to human agency, the platform showing 
evidence of having been the site of an aboriginal kitchen midden. 
Thirty or more species of mollusca, some marine worms, and 
a coral— all littoral species— are definitely associated with the 
formation of the raised beach. 
