Mount Read Volcanics
The Mount Read Volcanics is a Cambrian volcanic belt in Western Tasmania.
It is a complex belt due to folding, faulting and a range of tectonic events.
Between 1986 and 1993 a project to research and map the belt was conducted.[1][2]
Mapping
[edit]The component regions within the belt were identified in separate maps:[3]
- Map 1. Geology of the Mt. Charter-Hellyer area
- Map 2. Geology of Rosebery - Mount Black area
- Map 3. Geology of the Henty River - Mount Read area
- Map 4. Geology of the Mount Murchison area
- Map 5. Geology of the Tyndall Range area
- Map 6. Geological compilation map of the Mount Read volcanics & associated rocks, Hellyer to south Darwin Peak Scale 1:100,000
- Map 7. Geology of the Back Peak - Cradle Mountain Link Road area
- Map 8. Geology of the Mt. Cattley - Mt. Tor area
- Map 9. Geology of the Winterbrook - Moina area
- Map 10. Geology of the Elliott Bay - Mt. Osmund area
- Map 11. Geology of the Wanderer River - Moores Valley area
- Map 12. Geology of the D'Aguilar Range area
- Map 13. Geology of the Mount Jukes - Mt. Darwin area.
Conference excursions
[edit]Geological conferences in Australia and Tasmania have had symposiums and excursions to consider aspects of the phenomenon:
- 1986 - Geological Society of Australia, Tasmanian Division[4]
- 1990 - Australian Geological Convention, Hobart[5]
- 1993 - IAVCEI General Assembly, Canberra[6]
- 2004 - Australian Geological Convention, Hobart[7]
Mining operations
[edit]It is a productive mineralised belt that has had profitable copper-silver and gold production of Mount Lyell, Rosebery, and Henty Gold Mine, as well as numerous smaller sites of prospective mineralisation along the West Coast Range.
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Leaman, D. E. (David Edward); Tasmania. Division of Mines and Mineral Resources; Mt. Read Volcanics Project (1986), Mount Read Volcanics Project : preliminary interpretation report 1985 West Tasmania aeromagnetic survey (Macquarie Harbour South to Elliott Bay), Tasmania Dept. of Resources and Energy, Division of Mines and Mineral Resources, retrieved 19 June 2015
- ^ Leaman, D. E. (David Edward); Tasmania. Dept. of Mines; Mt. Read Volcanics Project (1987), Mount Read Volcanics Project mineralisation signature study : geophysics, gravity and magnetics, Tasmania Dept. of Mines, retrieved 5 April 2012
- ^ [Geological maps of Tasmania] : [Mount Read Volcanics Project], Geological Survey of Tasmania, Division of Mines and Mineral Resources, Mount Read Volcanics Project, 1986, retrieved 5 July 2023
- ^ Large, R.R. (editor) and convenor: P.L.F. Collins (1986) The Mount Read volcanics and associated ore deposits : a symposium, Burnie, November 1986. Hobart : Geological Society of Australia, Tasmanian Division. ISBN 0-7246-1955-0
- ^ Corbett, K. D; Large, Ross R; Geological Society of Australia; Australian Geological Convention (10th : 1990 : Hobart, Tas.) (1990), Excursion guide E1 : the Mount Read Volcanics and related ore deposits, s.n, retrieved 5 April 2012
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Corbett, K. D; McPhie, Jocelyn; Australian Geological Survey Organisation; IAVCEI General Assembly (1993 : Canberra, A.C.T.) (1993), Mount Read volcanics and associated ore deposits, Tasmania : IAVCEI, Canberra 1993 : excursion guide, Australian Geological Survey Organisation, ISBN 978-0-642-19664-4
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ McPhie, J. (Jocelyn); Corbett, K. D; Geological Society of Australia; Australian Geological Convention (17th : 2004 : Hobart, Tas.) (2004), Mount Read volcanics, western Tasmania : field guide A3 : 17 AGC : dynamic earth : past, present and future 2004 : 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart, Geological Society of Australia, ISBN 978-1-876125-37-0
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Further reading
[edit]- Crawford, AJ (1995), A geochemical approach to a tectonic model for the Mount Read Volcanics, Geological Society of Australia, retrieved 19 June 2015
- White, Matthew J (1996), Stratigraphy, volcanology and sedimentology of the Cambrian Tyndall Group, Mount Read volcanics, western Tasmania, retrieved 19 June 2015
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