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 The review of eruption points was based on an earlier unpublished manuscript Catalogue of the post-Miocene volcanoes of Victoria compiled by O P Singleton and E B Joyce (Geology Department, University of Melbourne 1970).

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Location:	37 37 60S 143 21 00E (external link); 7522-1-3 (Skipton South) 075315. 5 km N of Skipton. Skipton Road.
	Ripon
Land Tenure/Use:	Private land. Bare, grazing, small quarry.
Type 5:	Scoria cone with crater.
	Monmot Hill is a double scoria cone with two shallow craters both aligned east-west. The eastern crater is enclosed and has a small lava spatter dome (tholoid) in the crater. The western crater is broader and open on the western side and is partly surrounded by a low spatter rampart.
	346m; 60 m.
Regional:	This is a clear example of a double breached crater with good development of a spatter rampart.
References:	Ollier, C.D. & Joyce, E.B. 1964. Volcanic physiography of the Western Plains of Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 77, pp. 357-376. Ollier, C.D. 1967a. Landforms of the Newer Volcanic Province of Victoria. In J.N. Jennings & J.A. Mabbutt (eds), Landform studies from Australia and New Guinea. ANU Press, pp. 315-339.

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