Volcanoes

Hayes Hill is a small scoria dome with a final lava flow towards the south. Near the vent on the northern crest of the hill the lava flows preserve original structures but beyond this they are weathered. The lava from this volcano flowed along the ancestral Merri and Darebin Creeks to the valley of the Yarra River at Kew causing the temporary damming of that stream. It continued down the Yarra valley to the present site of Melbourne.

Type: 
Composite
Location: 
3km east of Donnybrooke, Just north of Donny Brooke Rd

Greek Hill is an low, eroded shield volcano, with extensive lava flows. From Google maps there looks to be some interesting volcanic features on it's northern slope.

Type: 
Composite
Location: 
5.5km west of Tarneit, north of Dohertys Road

Eroded scoria cone

Type: 
Scoria Cone
Location: 
8 km west of Lexton

Eroded scoria hill

Type: 
Scoria Cone
Location: 
9km West of Learmonth

Fitzgerald Hill is probably a small lava disc overlying broader lava flows. There are parallel groups of small rocky escarpments which are most prominent high on the eastern side and lower on the western slope. The outcrops give a very clear indication of the structure of the edges of lava flows.

Source DPI

Type: 
Lava Disk
Location: 
9 km northwest of Sunbury, 50 km northwest of Melbourne

Cowie Hill is a low lava hill surrounded by suburbia near Tarniet. There appear to be lava flows to the west.

Type: 
Lava Hill
Location: 
2km north west of Tarneit, near Tarneit Rd

Heavly eroded scoria cone.

 

Type: 
Scoria Cone
Location: 
7km West of Learmonth

A bay on the north east corner of Lake Burrumbeet. Has visible tuff layering and basaltic aglomerate. The nearby Mt Callender is covered in tuff from this eruption.

 

Type: 
Maar
Location: 
30km West of Ballarat

Eroded scoria cone just West of Learmonth

Type: 
Scoria Cone
Location: 
1km West of Learmonth

This scoria cone has a crater with a breach to the west.

Type: 
Scoria Cone
Location: 
2 km west of Gordon, 95 km west of melbourne

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