Volcanoes

The New Zealand region lies within the Pacific Ring of Fire. Volcanic eruptions occur regularly, especially from White Island, Ngāuruhoe and Ruapehu.

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Monitoring active volcanoes

The thick mantle of ignimbrites and tephra-fall layers forming the central North Island landscape is clear evidence of many large volcanic eruptions over the last few thousand years and earlier.

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The dramatic volcanic cone of Mt Taranaki is surrounded by dairy farms, with sweeping surf beaches to its west.

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Taranaki volcano sequence

Taranaki

Taranaki ring plain

Mt Taranaki (Mt Egmont)

Cone volcanoes and volcanic fields

Cone or stratovolcanoes These are ‘picture-postcard’ volcanoes – conical structures up to several hundred metres high, built by many eruptions of andesite lava over tens of thousands of years.

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Taranaki is a geologically young region, dominated by the 2,518-metre dormant volcano of Mt Taranaki (Taranaki Maunga).

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The volcanic region

Bay of Plenty

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