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

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

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

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.

References

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

Mountains in Tasmania, Australia

Arthur Range

Eastern	Federation (1,224 m or 4,016 ft)

Ben Lomond

Legges Tor (1,572 m or 5,157 ft)
Giblin Peak (1,569 m or 5,148 ft)
Markham Heights (1,542 m or 5,059 ft)
Hamilton Crags (1,540 m or 5,052 ft)
Stacks Bluff (1,527 m or 5,010 ft)
Misery Bluff (1,520 m or 4,987 ft)
Ossian’s Throne (1,498 m or 4,915 ft)
Coalmine Crag (1,498 m or 4,915 ft)
Magnet Crag (1,464 m or 4,803 ft)
Victoria (1,213 m or 3,980 ft)

Du Cane Range

unnamed peak (1,520 m or 4,987 ft)
Geryon North (1,516 m or 4,974 ft)
Massif (1,514 m or 4,967 ft)
Geryon South (1,509 m or 4,951 ft)
Gould (1,485 m or 4,872 ft)
Castle Crag (1,482 m or 4,862 ft)
Thetis (1,482 m or 4,862 ft)
The Acropolis (1,481 m or 4,859 ft)
Achilles (1,363 m or 4,472 ft)

Eldon Range

Eldon Peak (1,440 m or 4,724 ft)
Eldon Bluff

Great Western Tiers

Ironstone (1,443 m or 4,734 ft)

Pelion Range

Ossa (1,614 m or 5,295 ft)¹
Pelion West (1,560 m or 5,118 ft)
Pelion East (1,461 m or 4,793 ft)

Wellington Range

Kunanyi / Wellington (1,269 m or 4,163 ft)

West Coast Range

Murchison (1,275 m or 4,183 ft)
Jukes (1,168 m or 3,832 ft)
Sedgwick (1,147 m or 3,763 ft)
Owen (1,146 m or 3,760 ft)
Sorell (1,144 m or 3,753 ft)
Read (1,124 m or 3,688 ft)
Proprietary Peak (1,103 m or 3,619 ft)
Hamilton (1,103 m or 3,619 ft)
Darwin (1,031 m or 3,383 ft)

Heemskirk	Agnew (848 m or 2,782 ft) Dundas (1,143 m or 3,750 ft) Heemskirk (751 m or 2,464 ft) Zeehan (701 m or 2,300 ft)
Sticht	unnamed peak (1,080 m or 3,543 ft)
Tyndall	Geikie (1,191 m or 3,907 ft) Tyndall (1,179 m or 3,868 ft)

Not in a defined range

Mount Olympus (1,472 m or 4,829 ft)
Frenchmans Cap (1,446 m or 4,744 ft)
Barrow (1,406 m or 4,613 ft)

¹ Highest summit elevation in Tasmania

Mapping

Conference excursions

Mining operations

See also

References

Further reading