Pyroclastic stratigraphy and eruption dynamics of the 21.9 ka okareka and 17.6 ka rerewhakaaitu eruption episodes from tarawera volcano, Okataina Volcanic centre, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 309-328

  Darragh, Miles ^a   Cole, Jim ^a   Nairn, Ian ^b,c   Shane, Phil ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b GNS Science ^*  (New Zealand)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Column dynamics; Components; Dispersal; Duration; Eruption episode; Grain sizes; Rhyolite; Stratigraphy; Tarawera; Tephra

Indexed keywords

LAVA FLOW; PHREATOMAGMATISM; PLINIAN ERUPTION; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; RHYOLITE; STRATIGRAPHY; TEPHRA; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

AUSTRALASIA; BAY OF PLENTY; MOUNT TARAWERA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; OKATAINA VOLCANIC CENTRE;

PLINIA;

EID: 33750400206     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2006.9515170     Document Type: Article

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