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Kangaroo Hills (Kingston)

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 The review of eruption points was based on an earlier unpublished manuscript Catalogue of the post-Miocene volcanoes of Victoria compiled by O P Singleton and E B Joyce (Geology Department, University of Melbourne 1970).

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37 21 00S 144 00 30E (external link); 7723-3-4 (Eganstown) 345618. 11 km W of Daylesford.
Image: Eruption Point
Kangaroo Hills (Hepburn Lagoon in background)

Kangaroo Hills Road, Mays Road.

Creswick.

Private land. Cropping and grazing, some trees, no outcrop.

Type 5:
Scoria with cone crater.

Kangaroo Hills are adjacent circular scoria domes. Both have shallow depressions on the western slope. These may be erosional or slump features and scoria may have accumulated from one vent with directional fire-fountaining. If the depressions are remnant crater forms then two eruptions points are inferred.

678 m; 120 m.

Regional:
These are prominent landforms and provide an interesting problem in interpretation of the style of eruption. The site lies just north of Hepburn Lagoon maar. The details of eruption sequence of Kangaroo Hills and the relationship to the maar eruption is not known and provides a significant research issue.

References:
Coulson, A. (1954). The volcanic rocks of the Daylesford district. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 65, pp. 113-124.
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