Australian Museum Journal Cainozoic basalts of the Mt Fox area, north Queensland
- Shortform:
- Sutherland, 1977, Rec. Aust. Mus. 30(19): 532–543
- Author(s):
- Sutherland, F. L.
- Year published:
- 1977
- Title:
- Cainozoic basalts of the Mt Fox area, north Queensland
- Serial title:
- Records of the Australian Museum
- Volume:
- 30
- Issue:
- 19
- Start page:
- 532
- End page:
- 543
- DOI:
- 10.3853/j.0067-1975.30.1977.194
- Language:
- English
- Date published:
- 31 December 1977
- Cover date:
- 31 December 1977
- ISSN:
- 0067-1975
- CODEN:
- RAUMAJ
- Publisher:
- The Australian Museum
- Place published:
- Sydney, Australia
- Subjects:
- CAINOZOIC
- Digitized:
- 10 February 2009
- Available online:
- 04 March 2009
- Reference number:
- 194
- EndNote package:
- EndNote file
- Title page:
- Title page (70kb PDF)
- Complete work:
- Complete work (1650kb PDF)
Abstract
The Mt. Fox basalt field encompasses late Tertiary plugs and flow remnants and the Pleistocene Mt. Fox volcano. The flow remnants suggest an earlier largely westerly flowing plateau drainage, captured by southerly flowing drainages which cut through the old valley fills.
The basalts are mostly undersaturated types, basanitic and alkali basaltic rocks, but include transitional olivine tholeiite. Geochemically, the younger Mt. Fox lavas are the most undersaturated and show relative enrichment in alkali and alkaline earth elements.