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Warrumbungle Volcano | John Seach
Warrumbungle National Park, NSW, Australia
31.3 S, 149.0 E
Shield volcano
Extinct Volcano
Warrumbungle Volcano is a circular outcrop 50 km in diameter west of Coonabarabran and 500 km NW of Sydney. Warrumbunbungle is a mildly mildly alkaline intraplate volcano.
One of Australia's premier astronomical telescopes (Anglo-Australian Telescope) is located at Siding Spring at the volcano.
Further reading
Hockley, J.J., 1972. Alkaline rock lineages in the Warrumbungle shield volcano, eastern Australia. Nature Physical Science, 236(62), pp.15-15.
Duggan, M.B. and Knutson, J., 1991. The Warrumbungle Volcano. Central New South Wales: An Outline of the Geology and Petrology of the Warrumbungle Volcano (Canberra: Bureau of Mineral Resources).
Bull, K.F., Troedson, A.L., Bodorkos, S., Blevin, P.L., Bruce, M.C. and Waltenberg, K., 2020. Warrumbungle Volcano: facies architecture and evolution of a complex shield volcano. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, pp.1-39.
Eruptions of Warrumbungle volcano
13 to 17 million years ago