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Melbourne Hill

This information has been obtained from the report: Eruption Points of the Newer Volcanic Province of Victoria by Neville Rosengren. This report was published in 1994 and was prepared for the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) and the Geological Society of Australia (Victorian Division). The review of eruption points was based on an earlier unpublished manuscript Catalogue of the post-Miocene volcanoes of Victoria compiled by O P Singleton and E B Joyce (Geology Department, University of Melbourne 1970).

Geological heritage sites, including sites of geomorphological interest and volcanic heritage sites, are under regular revision by the Geological Society of Australia, especially in the assessment of significance and value. Reference should be made to the most recent reports. See the Earth Science Heritage (external link) section of the Geological Society of Australia website for details of geological heritage reports, and a bibliography.

37 18 00S 144 44 30E (external link); 7823-3-1 (Romsey) 999694. 2 m S of Lancefield.
Image: Eruption Point Melbourne Hill
Melbourne Hill

Melbourne Road.

Romsey.

Private land. Grazing, little outcrop, exposure in small unused quarry.

Type 4:
Lava hill.

Melbourne Hill is an elongated lava mound with at least two points of eruption. Several lavas of differing composition were erupted. From the northern end a flow of limburgitic basalt has been partly covered by a later flow of olivine basalt. A radiometric date (K-Ar) or the lower lava gave an age of eruption of 4.21 (+/-) 0.05 million years ago.

577 m; 75 m.

Regional:
The site is important for the variety of lava types rather than the morphology of the eruption point.

References:
Edwards, A.B. (1938). The Tertiary volcanic rocks of central Victoria. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 94, pp. 243-320.
Aziz-Ur-Rahman, A. & McDougall, I. (1972). Potassium-argon ages on the Newer Volcanics of Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 85, pp. 61-69.

Melbourne Hill
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