Story: Volcanoes

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 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.