Mount Fox (Queensland)

Mount Fox (Queensland)
Mount Fox

Mount Fox crater
Elevation 120 m (394 ft)
Location
Mount Fox is located in Queensland
Mount Fox
Queensland, Australia
Coordinates 18°50′S 145°48′E / 18.833°S 145.8°E / -18.833; 145.8Coordinates: 18°50′S 145°48′E / 18.833°S 145.8°E / -18.833; 145.8
Geology
Type Pyroclastic cone
Age of rock 560,000 years

Mount Fox is a 560,000-year-old cinder cone located 50 km west of Ingham, Queensland, Australia. Mount Fox has a shallow crater and a lava flow that extends away from the southern base of the cone. The cone lies on basaltic lava flows that are 23.6 million years old. Mount Fox is famous for its volcanic crater, which was formed 100,000 years ago by a volcanic explosion. It has never erupted.

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