An international team of subsurface explorers from the University of Adelaide in South Australia and the University of Aberdeen in Scotland uncovered the previously undescribed network of volcanoes buried deep within the Cooper-Eromanga Basins of central Australia.
The Cooper-Eromanga Basins in the northeastern corner of South Australia and southwestern corner of Queensland have been the site of about 60 years of petroleum exploration and production. But, until now, this ancient Jurassic volcanic underground landscape has gone largely unnoticed.