We are two year 3 students from Methodist Ladies College in Kew,
Melbourne, Australia. We found your page on the Internet and wanted to
ask you a little about volcanos.
At our school we have been learning about volcanos and we are intrested
in knowing how volcanos erupt. Do you know how many volcanos there are
in Victoria?
Jessica and Emilly
Dear Jessica and Emilly,
Australia is not usually considered to be a country with volcanoes but
actually there have been eruptions for many millions of years along its
eastern edge. The youngest eruption was only about 2900 years ago in the
Newer Volcanic Province of Victoria. According to "Cainozoic Volcanicity
in Victoria" by O.P. Singleton and E.B. Joyce (published in 1969 as part
of the Special Publication of the Geologic Society of Australia, volume
2, pages 145-154) there are between 350 and 400 cinder cone volcanoes in
the New Volcanic Province west of Melbourne. I bet you can find some
more recent articles about the Australian volcanoes!
Chuck Wood, University of North Dakota
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