Late Quaternary evolution of a hyperactive rhyolite magmatic system: Taupo volcanic centre, New Zealand

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 157, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 537-552

  Sutton, Andrew N ^a   Blake, Stephen ^a   Wilson, Colin J N ^b   Charlier, Bruce L A ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Explosive volcanism; Magmatism; Rhyolite; Taupo volcanic centre

Indexed keywords

EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; MAGMATISM; QUATERNARY; RHYOLITE; VOLCANISM;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0034077009     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs.157.3.537     Document Type: Article

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