page_title: Kambah, Australian Capital Territory
section_title: Geology
hierarchical_section_title: Kambah, Australian Capital Territory / Geology
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking toward Kambah and Wanniassa from Mount Taylor in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).
context_page_description: Kambah is the northernmost suburb in the district of Tuggeranong, Canberra. It is located just south of Mount Taylor in the Canberra Nature Park. It is located north of the suburbs of Greenway and Wanniassa. It is bounded by Sulwood Drive to the north and Athllon Drive to the south-east.
  Kambah was not designed according to the 'neighbourhood' philosophy guiding the design of other Canberra suburbs and is the largest suburb in Canberra with an area of 1130 ha. The suburb name was gazetted on 22 March 1973 and it was first settled in 1974 and consists predominantly of detached single-storey suburban houses. It was the first suburb in the satellite city of Tuggeranong. Kambah was named after the Kambah Homestead which was originally located in the Tuggeranong district. The name Kambah derives from Ngambri, the name of the clan that originally lived in the area before European occupation. The same word is the origin for the name Canberra.
context_section_description: Kambah is underlain by Silurian volcanics.
  Rhyodacitic ignimbrite in the form of grey rhyodacitic and dacitic crystal tuff is under most of Kambah apart from the eastern corner.  These are Laidlaw Volcanics aged 420.7±2.2 mya of Ludlow Age.
  In the east of Kambah alongside Athllon Drive can be found green-grey, purple and cream rhyolite, agglomerate, purple tuff or rhyodacite.  In a band just to the west of this is red-purple and green-grey rhyodacite.  This material is from the Deakin Volcanics and is older than the Laidlaw Volcanics.  Also around Kambah on some of the hills are outcroppings of a coarse pink-brown rhyodacitic intrusion of porphyry.  These intrusions can be found on Neighbour Hill, Forster Hill, McQuoids Hill, and the east and south-east of Mount Taylor also around Menzie Place and another patch around the south of Mount Neighbour preschool.  These intrusions were likely the necks of volcanoes that erupted the other tuff and dacite in the area.
  A Cenozoic age dyke of teschenite intrudes the Laidlaw ignimbrite in the Kambah Pool and Red Rocks Gorge area.
  Quaternary alluvium covers the ground around the upper reaches of Village Creek, around Drakeford Drive.  A fault runs from the north-west in Allchin Circuit to the south-east under Urambi primary school.
caption: Kambah as viewed from Mount Taylor to the north
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