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 13^th 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 20^th Conference of the Australian Speleological Federation (Vulcon, 1995).

Paper (PDF) on Subcrustal Lava Caves (Victorian examples): KG Grimes 2002. Submitted for publication in the Proceedings of the 10th International Volcanospeleology Symposium in Iceland, 2002. But those have not yet been printed.
See below for a revised version

Draft version of a paper (PDF) on Subcrustal Lava Caves (Victorian examples): KG Grimes (in prep, 2006). This is a revised version of the one submitted to the Proceedings of the 10th International Volcanospeleology Symposium.

Paper (PDF) on "Mt Fyans dyke cave", KG Grimes, 2006, published in Helictite 39(1).. A small cave in a dyke intruding a scoria cone, and other cavities in fingers of lava.
This is a revised version of a short paper submitted to the Proceedings of the 10th International Volcanospeleology Symposium.

Cave Reports (PDF)

Victorian volcanic caves:

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) Initial 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).

Queensland volcanic caves:

4BB: Black Braes area, North Queensland (KG. Grimes 1977) Report on a small area of lava caves in the Chudleigh Volcanic Province, about 150km south of Undara.

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

Web Pages

Photos (from various volcanic cave areas)

North Queensland Lava tubes

Victorian Lava tubes