Australia's 120 Kilometer Long & 13,000 Year Old Lava Flow; The Toomba Volcano

Approximately 13,000 years ago in Queensland, a lengthy 3 decade long volcanic eruption began. During this eruption, a new shield volcano was constructed and lava flowed up to 120 kilometers or 75 miles distant. By the time the eruption ended, a total of 676 square kilometers of ground had been coated in a layer of lava. This occurred at the Toomba volcano in the Nulla Volcanic Province within Australia.

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Sources/Citations:
[1] A. K. Mishra, C. Placzek, C. Wurster & P. W. Whitehead (2018): New
radiocarbon age constraints for the 120km-long Toomba flow, north Queensland, Australia,
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2019.1523227
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[3] Queensland Government, Parks and Forests, https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/gr...

0:00 An Australian Eruption
0:49 Toomba Volcano
3:19 A Misnamed Park
4:19 Conclusion