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Vent, 1964

Vent, 1964

This is the largest in a line of vents that the 1964 eruption opened near Green Lake. It blasted a crater in a pumice cone that was formed in an earlier eruption, about 1650 AD.

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Photograph by E. F. Lloyd

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Eileen McSaveney, Carol Stewart and Graham Leonard. 'Historic volcanic activity', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 24-Sep-11
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/historic-volcanic-activity/7/3