Tauranga Volcanic Centre

sopka (bez známé erupce za posledních ~12 000 let), New Zealand, Tonga-Kermadec Volcanic Regions

Kde

New Zealand, Tonga-Kermadec Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Volcanic field

Nadmořská výška

200 m

Poloha

-37,833°, 176,100°

The late Pliocene to early Pleistocene Tauranga Volcanic Centre is located in the western Bay of Plenty region near the city of Tauranga, northwest of the Taupo Volcanic Zone. As defined by Pittari et al. (2021), this volcanic region comprises an eroded andesitic stratovolcano (Otawa Formation), approximately 17 rhyolite-rhyodacite lava dome complexes (Minden Rhyolite Subgroup), two ignimbrites (Waiteariki and Papamoa formations), and the small Matakana Formation basalt lava flow. Previous researchers had placed the more southern Kaimai-Kakahu-Te Weraiti dome complex and the Waiteariki Formation into a distinct Kaimai Volcanic Centre, but Pittari et al. (2021) found that they were not spatially distinct from other domes in the area.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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