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, 2010). Prepared for the International Symposium on Volcanospeleology, Australia, August 2010.

Poster (PDF) on Formation of Lava Caves by various processes (KG Grimes, 2003). Earlier version prepared for the ACKMA Conference, North Queensland, May 2003. (revised 2005)

Earlier Poster (PDF) on Sub-crustal Lava Caves (KG Grimes, 2002). Prepared for the IUS conference on Volcano-speleology, Iceland, September, 2002. (revised 2005)

Published Papers

Field Guide (PDF) to the Volcanic Caves of Western Victoria: KG Grimes (ed), 2010, Prepared for the 14th International Symposium on Volcanospeleology, August 2010.

Paper (PDF) on Subcrustal Lava Caves (Victorian examples): KG Grimes, 2008, Presented to the 10th IUS conference on vulcanospeleology in 2002. This version was revised in 2006 and published in Espinasa-Perena R & Pint, J (eds) Proceedings of the X, XI and XII International Symposia on Vulcanospeleology, Association of Mexican Cave Studies, Bulletin 19: 35-44. (2008). The published version was missing some headings, which have been added (squeezed in) in this version.

Paper (PDF) on "Volcanic Caves of Western Victoria": KG Grimes 2007. Preprint of a paper that appeared (2010) in the Proceedings of the 26^th Australian Speleological Federation Conference (ASF).

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, and which appeared in the AMCS Bull 19 in 2008.

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).

Historic papers

Skeats, EW., & James, AVG., 1937: Basaltic Barriers and Other Surface Features of the Newer basalts of Western Victoria. Proc. Roy. Soc. Vic., 49(2): 245-291.
This is scanned page images only. It includes descriptions of lava caves as well as surface volcanic features.

Cave Reports (PDF)

Victorian volcanic caves:

Paper (PDF) on "Volcanic Caves of Western Victoria": KG Grimes 2007. Preprint of a paper to appear in the Proceedings of the 26^th Australian Speleological Federation Conference (ASF).

3H-1: Mt Widderin Cave, Skipton. (CD. Ollier, 1963), Ollier's report in the Victorian Naturalist.

3H-1: Mt. Widderin Cave (KG Grimes, 2010), Report on a visit in 2010, with photos of "proto-tubes". (VSA records)

3H-2: Mt Hamilton Cave (CD. Ollier, 1963), Ollier's report in the Victorian Naturalist.

3H-2: Mt Hamilton cave minerals (JA. Webb 1985), Report on Opal-A anthodites, from The Australiam Mineralogist. A

3H-9: Tunnel Cave, Mt Eccles (KG. Grimes, 1998), published in Nargun.

3H-10: Natural Bridge, Mt Eccles (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. (VSA records)

3H-11: Harmans Caves, Byaduk (KG Grimes 1998), published in Nargun.

3H-13: Bridge Cave, Byaduk (KG Grimes 1999) Report on a large branching feeder tube at the Byaduk caves. (VSA records)

3H-70: Carmichael cave, Mt Ecles (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 (VSA records).

3H-105: Mt Fyans Dyke Cave (KG Grimes, 2006). published in Helictite 39(1).

3H-105: Mt Fyans Dyke Cave (KG Grimes 2001) Initial report on a small cave formed in a volcanic dyke (VSA records).

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, VSA records).

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.

Photos (from various volcanic cave areas)

North Queensland Lava tubes

Victorian Lava tubes

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