#Taupō Volcanic Zone

[dream-world-universe]

Mt Ngauruhoe, New Zealand: Mount Ngauruhoe is a volcanic cone in New Zealand. It is the youngest vent in the Tongariro stratovolcano complex on the Central Plateau of the North Island and first erupted about 2,500 years ago. Although often regarded as a separate mountain, geologically, it is a secondary cone of Mount Tongariro. Wikipedia

[holliano]

flpinktober day 18: Volcano

Hahahahahahaha I live in a death trap.

The Auckland Volcanic zone has 50 volcanoes in a 1000 square km area.

If the dormant Rangitoto volcano erupts again it will probably wipe out Auckland’s North Shore the last eruption was 600 years ago.

The Auckland Museum is built on the crater of Mt. Pukekawa.

Taupō’s eruption 1800 years ago (dated by sampling ice cores in Greenland and Antarctica) was so violent that it was heard in China! It blew itself up and left the crater lake that is now Lake Taupō the biggest lake in the country! -The blob in the middle of the island there.

The Auckland Museum advise that it’s not a matter of if, but when. Which is reassuring as heck.

This concludes my introductory guide to volcanoes in New Zealand.

[scitechman]

The Mystery of 1000 Springs

The Mystery of 1000 Springs

The world’s most comprehensive study of geothermal springs has provided a unique insight into their make-up.

The million dollar MBIE-funded 1000 Springs Project has had its first major results published in Nature Communications. Over a period of two years, a small team of researcherscarried out systematic sampling of hot pools in the Taupō Volcanic Zone, the geothermally abundant region spanning…