Volcanic Caves

This directory has a number of posters and other reports that describe sub-crustal, and other, lava caves in Victoria and north Queensland.

Posters

Poster (PDF) on Formation of Lava Tubes by roofing of lava channels (KG Grimes, 2002)
Poster (PDF) on Sub-crustal Lava Caves (KG Grimes, 2002)

Published Papers

Paper on "Volcanic Caves and Related features of Western Victoria": KG Grimes 2000. Published in the Proceedings of the 13th Australasian Cave and Karst Management Conference (ACKMA), 1999.

Cave Reports

3H-10: Natural Bridge (KG Grimes 1998) Report on a cave formed by Levee Overgrowth of a surface lava channel. Mt. Eccles.
3H-13: Bridge Cave (KG Grimes 1999) Report on a large branching feder tube at the Byaduk caves.
3H-70: Carmichael cave (KG Grimes, 1999) Report on a complex shallow sub-crustal lava cave at Mt. Eccles.
3H-105: Mt Fyans Dyke Cave (KG Grimes 2001) Report on a small cave formed in a volcanic dyke.
3H-106 and 3H-108 A pair of sub-crustal caves at Byaduk. These two and H-74 form a stack of three caves in separate thin lava flows. (KG Grimes, 2002).

Web Pages (image of an old web site on Volcanic Caves of Victoria)

Web Pages

Photos (directories)

North Queensland Lava tubes
Victorian Lava tubes