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Volcanoes

• What is a volcano?

• Pacific Ring of Fire

• Cone volcanoes and volcanic fields

• Caldera volcanoes and the Taupō Volcanic Zone

• The Taupō volcano

• The Kermadec Ridge: submarine volcanoes

• Tephra layers – a record of past eruptions

• Monitoring active volcanoes

• Further Sources