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