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Hume is a suburb of Canberra in the District of Jerrabomberra. 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. In 1824, along with William Hovell, Hume participated in an expedition that first took an overland rout ...
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, as a result of the construction of the
Alexander Maconochie Centre The Alexander Maconochie Centre is an Australian prison in the Australian Capital Territory, which detains maximum security, minimum security and remand inmates, both male and female. It is located in Hume, Australian Capital Territory. The f ...
. The location of the prison has also given Hume a highly unusual gender ratio with 92.7% of the permanent population being male.


Geology

Deakin Volcanics from the
Silurian The Silurian ( ) is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 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 shortest period of the Paleoz ...
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 ra ...
are found in the south and including Tralee, New South Wales. 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 ...
, ashstone,
shale Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especiall ...
, and coarse
sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicat ...
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


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