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Kangaroo Hill (Denver)

371630S 1441800E; 7723-2-4 (Coliban) 611716. 11 km SW of Malmsbury.

Image: Eruption Point
Kangaroo Hill

Daylesford-Malmsbury Road.

Daylesford and Glenlyon.

Private land. Grazing, few trees on top, outcrop at summit.
Type 4:
Lava hill.

The flat-topped lava mound has a summit bounded by basalt escarpments. Lava from this vent followed the ancestral Coliban River forming the Kangaroo Hill deep lead. The base of the flow is exposed at many localities along the present Coliban valley near Malmsbury and Taradale.

658 m; 75 m.

Regional:
An example of a very large deep lead flow eruption point.

Class 2:
Small farm development or closer subdivision will increasing isolate 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.
Coulson, A. (1954). The volcanic rocks of the Dayles ford district. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 65, pp. 113-124.



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