More links and websites
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About volcanoes
GeoNet has responsibility for monitoring New Zealand’s volcanoes.
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Review of the stratigraphy of late Quaternary tephras
This review paper (in PDF format) by Paul Froggatt and David J. Lowe, published in the New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics (1990), lists the 39 late Quaternary tephras (erupted from four rhyolite caldera volcanoes since about 50,000 years ago) that had been identified by 1990, and gives a summary of the evidence for identifying and dating each of them.
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Tephra studies in New Zealand: a historical review
This paper (in PDF format) by David J. Lowe, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand (1990), gives a review of the development of tephrostratigraphy in New Zealand.
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The 26.5 ka Oruanui eruption: a review of the roles of volcanism and climate in the post-eruptive sedimentary response
This abstract of a paper by Vern Manville and Colin N. J. Wilson is from the New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics (2004). It describes the dramatic changes to the landscape after the Ōruanui eruption from Lake Taupō, about 26,500 years ago.
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Volcanic history of Macauley Island, Kermadec Ridge
This paper by E. F. Lloyd and others is from the New Zealand Journal of Geology & Geophysics (1996). It describes the sequence and volcanic rocks exposed on Macauley Island, one of the few parts of the Kermadec Ridge above the sea.
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Volcano cameras and seismographs
On the GeoNet site, this presents continuous online records of web camera and seismograph records from White Island, Ngāuruhoe, Ruapehu and Taranaki (Mt Egmont).
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Volcano information
This site gives a range of information about volcanoes, including New Zealand.
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Volcanoes in New Zealand
GNS Science provides an overview of New Zealand volcanoes, including links to other sites with recent photographs and video clips.
More suggestions and sources
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Cotton, C. A. Volcanoes as landscape forms. New York: Hafner, 1969 (originally published 1944).
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Price, Richard, and others. Volcanology of the Tongariro Crossing; a virtual field trip on CD-ROM. University of Waikato, 2003.
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Williams, Karen. Volcanoes of the south wind – a field guide to the volcanoes and landscape of Tongariro National Park. Tūrangi: Tongariro National History Society, 2001.
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Wilson, C. J. N. ‘The 26.5 ka Oruanui eruption, New Zealand: an introduction and overview.’ Journal of Volcanology & Geothermal Research 112 (2001): 133–174.