Rim and Ranges

Description

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Five in a series of 5 depicting the evolution of the Scenic Rim, Clarence River and Border Ranges and here a mantle plume has created the Scenic Rim and Border Ranges.

At 26 million years ago Australia had split from New Zealand and Antarctica and was moving north at more that 6 centimeters per year. It was also passing over a hot mantle plume that was melting the underside of the continent and throwing up volcanic features such as the Glass House Mountains and Flinders Peak.  Then at 24 million years ago the Australian plate bumped into the Asian plates and it’s drift direction changed from north to west as well as slowing down from 6 cm/year to 2.6 cm/year. The hot mantle plume was now able to melt more of the underside of Australia and volcanic features were created from Cunningham’s Gap to Mount Warning, ”The Scenic Rim” and "Border Ranges".