Story: Volcanoes

Page 9 – External links and sources

More links and websites

  • About volcanoes

    GeoNet has responsibility for monitoring New Zealand’s volcanoes.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Volcanic history of Macauley Island, Kermadec Ridge

    This paper (in PDF format) 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.

  • 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).

  • Volcano information

    This site gives a range of information about volcanoes, including New Zealand.

  • 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

    • Cotton, C. A. Volcanoes as landscape forms. New York: Hafner, 1969 (originally published 1944).

    • Price, Richard, and others. Volcanology of the Tongariro Crossing; a virtual field trip on CD-ROM. University of Waikato, 2003.

    • 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.

    • 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.


How to cite this page:

Richard Smith, David J. Lowe and Ian Wright. 'Volcanoes', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 9-Nov-12
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/volcanoes/sources