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 Caves by various processes (KG Grimes, 2003). Prepared for the ACKMA Conference, North Queensland, May 2003.
Poster (PDF) on Sub-crustal Lava Caves (KG Grimes, 2002). Prepared for the IUS conference on Volcano-speleology, Iceland, September, 2002.

Published Papers

Paper (PDF) 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.
Paper (PDF) on "Lava caves and channels at Mount Eccles, Victoria": KG Grimes 1995. Published in the Precedings of the 20th Conference of the Australian Speleological Federation (Vulcon, 1995).

Cave Reports (PDF)

3H-10: Natural Bridge (KG Grimes 2002) Report in Nargun on a cave formed by Levee Overgrowth of a surface lava channel. Mt. Eccles.
3H-10: Natural Bridge (KG Grimes 1998) Earlier cave report form on the same cave.
3H-13: Bridge Cave (KG Grimes 1999) Report on a large branching feeder tube at the Byaduk caves.
3H-70: Carmichael cave (KG Grimes, 2002) Report in Nargun on a complex shallow sub-crustal lava cave at Mt. Eccles.
3H-70: Carmichael cave (KG Grimes, 1999) Earlier cave report form on 3H-70.
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

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