User:Generalissima/Kaharoa eruption

Background

Mount Tarawera is a volcano within the Ōkataina Volcanic Centre, itself one of seven caldera complexes within the Taupō Volcanic Zone of the North Island of New Zealand. The Ōkataina Volcanic Centre has been active for at least 550,000 years before present (bp). Tarawera and the nearby Haroharo Caldera have produced regular rhyolitic eruptive episodes over the past 20,000 years, creating large volumes of tephra and both welded and unwelded ignimbrites. Tarawera underwent the Okareka eruption around 21,800 bp, the Rerewhakaaitu eruption around 17,600 bp, and the Waiohau around 13,600 bp. All three eruptions were rhyolitic, with significant basalt inclusions in the Okareka eruption.

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