Category: Caldera Nature

The Caldera – The Tweed Volcano Erosion Caldera

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NASA: “The image can be seen in 3 dimensions (3-D) by viewing the following left image with the right eye and the right image with the left eye (cross-eyed viewing).

When stereoscopically merged, the result is a vertically exaggerated view of Earth’s surface in its full three dimensions.

“The Tweed Volcano is one of planet earth’s biggest volcanoes.

Volcanic eruptions lasted about three million years, ending about 20 million years ago.

The volcano basin has been hollowed out by the streams, creeks and river, forming an ‘erosional caldera’. read more

The Tweed Valley: “A deep rich valley clothed with magnificent trees, … ” Oxley: 1823

In 1823 John Oxley was the first European to see the Tweed Valley, and he wrote of it: “A deep rich valley clothed with magnificent trees, the beautiful uniformity of which was only interrupted by the turns and windings of the river, which here and there appeared like small lakes. The background was Mt. Warning. The view was altogether beautiful beyond description. The scenery here exceeded anything I have previously seen in Australia.”

Oxley was sailing up the eastern coast of Australia from Sydney in search of a penal settlement site “for difficult convicts”. Sailing further, they decided on Redcliffe, part of now Brisbane (perhaps explaining something of the Queensland culture of today). read more

The Tweed River District Official Tourist Guide, Murwillumbah – The Centre of Tourist’s Routes.

pdf – Scenic Beauties of the Tweed River District, Official Tourist Guide, Murwillumbah – The Centre of Tourist’s Routes Download

“The Upper Tweed affords scenes of beautiful fertile valleys, lofty mountains and hills, bold cliff and rugged bluff, all having rich and varied vegetation.

“… a great wealth of choicest timber trees, including Cedar (red and white), Teak, Beach, Baligum, Sasafras, Cudgera, Black and Redbean, Rosewood, Beefwood, a large variety of Fig trees, and numerous varieties of giant scrub trees, besides the various giant hardwoods in the forest areas.

“Of this wonderful scenic district, Murwillumbah, on the Tweed River, between a horseshoe range of mountain peaks and the sea, is an ideal centre for tourists. read more