Birmingham

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 The review of eruption points was based on an earlier unpublished manuscript Catalogue of the post-Miocene volcanoes of Victoria compiled by O P Singleton and E B Joyce (Geology Department, University of Melbourne 1970).

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Location:	Bostock Waller’s Hill.	Birmingham (in foreground south of Lake Bullen Merri).
	38 17 00S 143 06 00E (external link); 7521-3-4 (Cobden) 841604. 6 km S of Camperdown. Pekins Lane. Heytesbury.
Land Tenure/Use:	Private land. Agriculture, disused tuff pit.
Type 8:	Nested/buried tuff ring maar.
	Birmingham Hill is the highest point along a ridge built of two or more small scoria mounds. South and west of the ridge is a depression containing lake deposits and partly enclosing all this is an incomplete ring of tuff. There are extensive tuff deposits to the north. The scoria overlies the tuff and indicates a maar eruption followed at a later stage by scoria eruptions.
	221 m; 60 m.
Regional:	This is a good example of one of the eruption sequences that is common in the Camperdown-Warrnambool region i.e. a maar partly buried by scoria.

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