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.
Mapping The component regions within the belt were identified in separate maps:
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 1990 - Australian Geological Convention, Hobart 1993 - IAVCEI General Assembly, Canberra 2004 - Australian Geological Convention, Hobart
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.
See also
Geology of Tasmania
References
Further reading 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
