Double trouble: Paired ignimbrite eruptions and collateral subsidence in the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 18-30

  Gravley, D M ^a   Wilson, C J N ^a   Leonard, G S ^b   Cole, J W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Caldera collapse; Collateral subsidence; Ignimbrite eruption; Mamaku ignimbrite; Ohakuri ignimbrite; Taupo Volcanic Zone

Indexed keywords

CALDERA COLLAPSE; COLLATERAL SUBSIDENCE; IGNIMBRITE ERUPTION; MAMAKU IGNIMBRITE; OHAKURI IGNIMBRITE; TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE;

FORECASTING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TECTONICS; VOLCANIC ROCKS; VOLCANOES;

SEISMOLOGY;

CALDERA; EXPLOSIVE VOLCANISM; IGNIMBRITE; SUBSIDENCE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANOLOGY;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE;

EID: 33846488384     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25924.1     Document Type: Article

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