Just out of interest.....

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Just out of interest.....

Postby ciderman_nz » Fri May 27, 2016 10:40 pm

.....I have always been fascinated by the "Ring of Fire" of which we are, of course, a part.Lake Taupo is a Mecca for boating, fishing and scenery but...
Where: north-eastern Lake Taupo
When: about 1,800 years ago
Effects: The Taupo eruption was the most violent eruption in the world in the last 5,000 years; it was a complex series of events. The first phases of the eruption produced a series of five pumice and ash fall deposits over a wide area of the central North Island, especially east of Taupo and beyond Napier into Hawke Bay. The eruption culminated with a large and very energetic pyroclastic flow that devastated an area of about 20,000 km2 and filled all the major river valleys of the central North Island with pumice and ash. These pumice deposits can still be seen today and many of the major rivers in the North Island carry large amounts of this pumice when in flood. Rounded pumice found on the beaches of the North Island have come from this eruption. The Taupo eruption took place from a line of vents near the eastern side of the modern lake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gBJDGciW5c
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