The Mount Read Volcanics is a
Cambrian
The Cambrian Period ( ; sometimes symbolized C with bar, Ꞓ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 53.4 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.8 million ...
volcanic belt
A volcanic belt is a large volcanically active region. Other terms are used for smaller areas of activity, such as volcanic fields. Volcanic belts are found above zones of unusually high temperature () where magma is created by partial melting ...
that exists in
Western Tasmania
The West Coast of Tasmania is mainly isolated rough country, associated with wilderness, mining and tourism. It served as the location of an early convict settlement in the early history of Van Diemen's Land, and contrasts sharply with the mo ...
.
It is a complex belt due to folding, faulting and a range of tectonic events.
It is a productive mineralised belt that has profitable copper-silver and gold production of
Mount Lyell,
Rosebery, and
Henty Gold Mine
The Henty Gold Mine is located at the head of the Henty River on the edge of the West Coast Range in Western Tasmania. It is approximately 30 km north of Queenstown. It is east of Zeehan and south of Rosebery. It can be reached by the ...
; and numerous smaller sites of prospective mineralisation along the
West Coast Range
The West Coast Range is a mountain range located in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia.
The range lies to the west and north of the main parts of the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park.
The range has had a significant numb ...
.
See also
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Geology of Tasmania
The geology of Tasmania is complex, with the world's biggest exposure of diabase, or dolerite. The rock record contains representatives of each period of the Neoproterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic eras. It is one of the few southern h ...
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* 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.
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Geologic formations of Australia
Western Tasmania
Geology of Tasmania
Volcanoes of Tasmania
Cambrian volcanism
Cambrian Australia
Volcanic belts
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