Ōkataina Caldera
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Ōkataina Caldera is a volcanic caldera and its associated volcanoes located in Taupō Volcanic Zone of New Zealand's North Island. It has several actual or postulated sub calderas. The Ōkataina Caldera
Okataina Volcanic Centre relationships to other nearby volcanic and tectonic structures
The 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera, depicted in this contemporary painting by Charles Blomfield, is the most recent major eruption from the Ōkataina Caldera.
Mount Tarawera
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Mount Tarawera is a volcano on the North Island of New Zealand within the older but volcanically productive Ōkataina Caldera. Located 24 kilometres southeast of Rotorua, it consists of a series of rhy
Ōkataina Caldera
…south west corner is defined by the domes of the Ōkareka Embayment and the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley while the south east aspect is dominated by Mount Tarawera and the volcanic badlands of the Puhipuhi Basin. The caldera also contains several lakes, including part or all of Lake Ōkareka, Lake Ōkataina, Lake…
Fissure formed during the 1886 eruption
Crumbling scoria cliffs surround the summit rift
The Phantom Canoe: A Legend of Lake Tarawera, by Kennett Watkins