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Gill E D, 1964. Rocks contiguous with the basaltic cuirass of western Victoria. {Proc Roy Soc Victoria}, 77: 331-355

Gill E D, 1971. Applications of radiocarbon dating in Victoria, Australia. {Proc Roy Soc Victoria}, 84: 71-85

IAVCEI, 1973-80. Post-Miocene Volcanoes of the World. {IAVCEI Data Sheets, Rome: Internatl Assoc Volc Chemistry Earth's Interior}.

Johnson R W, Knutson J, Taylor S R (eds), 1989. {Intraplate Volcanism in Eastern Australia and New Zealand}. Cambridge, England: Cambridge Univ Press, 408 p

Singleton O P, Joyce E B, 1969. Cainozoic volcanicity in Victoria. {Geol Soc Aust Spec Pub}, 2: 145-154

Thomas L, 1976. Geothermal resources in Australia. {In}: {Proc 2nd United Nations Symp Devel Use Geotherm Resour, San Francisco}, Washington D C: U S Government Printing Office, 1: 273-274

The voluminous Newer Volcanics province covers a broad 15,000 sq km area of SE Australia with nearly 400 small shield volcanoes and explosive vents of Tertiary-to-Holocene age. Volumetrically the vast proportion of volcanic products consist of flat-lying lava flows, although the most prominent features of the volcanic field are the numerous small scoria cones, tuff rings, and maars that rise above the lava plain. Several vents were active during the Holocene; another vent (Mount Tower) is now considered to be of late-Pleistocene age. Late-Pleistocene to Holocene eruptions are characterized by small volume and low explosivity, forming a series of scoria cones, maars, tuff rings, and major valley filling lava flows. The youngest dated eruptions took place at Mount Schank and Mount Gambier about 5000 years ago, when explosive activity formed several maars and associated lava flows.