Why arnt there any volcanoes in australia. please explain in a few paragraphs if posible?

Question

thankyou ^.^

Answer 1

There are no hot spots and it is not near enough to subduction zones that push it over the crust.  One of the most volcanic region on Earth is just north of Australia where the Pacific plate it is subducting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Plate...

Answer 2

Active volcanoes generally occur close to the major tectonic plate boundaries. Many are located along the earth's plate boundaries. Active volcanoes are rare in Australia because there are no plate boundaries on this continent. However, there are two active volcanoes located 4000 kilometres south west of Perth on the Australian territories, Heard Island and the nearby McDonald Islands.

The other active volcanoes nearest Australia are in New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and the Phillipines.

Answer 3

i think it's because they aren't near a fault line or a division in the tectonic plates. i think that's about all the answer necessary tho. that's the only reason i can think of

Answer 4

There are no active or dormant volcanoes in Western Australia, although there are a number of extinct ones, and geological evidence of others. There are nineteen small extinct volcanoes in the valley of the Fitzroy River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The Kimberley also has a number of groups of hot springs, which may be connected with the volcanic activity that produced the extinct volcanoes. There are also deposits of basalt at Bunbury and Cape Gosselin.

This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes:

Hers a link that might be really helpful http://www.ga.gov.au/hazards/volcano/cau...

but that first one is from wikipedia so don't  trust it

school project i assume

Answer 5

Look at where there are volcanoes - like the west coast of the US.  We got some big ones.  As N. America is shoved west, it rides up and over the sea floor.  This is called a "subduction zone" - the sea floor is subducted - sucked down inside the earth as the lighter rock of the continent runs over the top.

The sea floor is full of water - and this goes down inside the earth and is heated to impossible temperatures!!!  And all that heat and water and hot rocks play on the bottom of the continent like a blow torch.  And when it finds a crack in the continent - bang - up she comes.

Australia doesn't have a subduction zone associated with it right now although it has in the past.  

But remember that "subduction zone" - it's a plate boundary - it's what does the work when volcanoes are created.

Answer 6

Australia is not inside the ring of fire. its the circle where the tectonic plates are either more loose or more grinding and such.

Answer 7

Am I answering some school question?? Lol.

Volcanoes typically form on the boundaries of tectonic plates, since there are none crossing through Oz, you tend not to get any.  

Answer 8

there aren't any plate boundaries in australia.

http://www.geography-site.co.uk/pages/ph...

Answer 9

kangaroos wont allow them