Wheeler Hill

37 23 00S 144 11 30E (external link); 7723-3-2 (Bullarto) 512589. 5 km SE of Daylesford. Daylesford-Trentham Road.		Wheeler Hill
Daylesford and Glenlyon.
Private land. Grazed and cropped, large planted windbreaks, outcrop in road cutting shows scoria and bombs.

Type 9:	Composite lava and scoria volcano
	Wheeler Hill is a large composite volcano being a well-defined scoria cone with a crater open towards the northwest and lava flows to the north contributing to the Deadmans lead at Daylesford. A small summit flow has been analysed as limburgite - a dense ultrabasic lava consisting of olivine and augite. Cuttings on Wheeler Hill Road expose pyroclastic deposits and lava bombs.
	791 m; 75 m.
Regional:	This is a good example of limburgite which is an uncommon rock in the Newer Volcanics Province. This is also one of the few exposures of pyroclastic rock in the Central Highlands.
CLass 3:	The current agricultural land use is compatible with maintaining the geological and geomorphological values of the site. The site would be threatened by smaller farm development or subdivision.
References:	Coulson, A. (1954). The volcanic rocks of the Daylesford district. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 65, pp. 113-124.