ZLV/OKA-001

Mt Tarawera

Volcano

":Ōkataina Caldera (Ōkataina Volcanic Centre, also spelled Okataina) is a volcanic caldera and its associated volcanoes located in Taupō Volcanic Zone of New Zealand's North Island." "The caldera has seen six eruptions in the past 10,000 years, most recently the 1886 Mount Tarawera eruption in the caldera's southeastern corner. The caldera contains two major lava dome complexes, the Haroharo vent alignment in the north and Tarawera vent alignment in the south. These two vent alignments are associated with current subsidence in the last 20 years of about 1.5 cm/year (0.59 in/year) which is assumed to be because of mainly cooling and contraction of previous magma melt. Other volcanoes connected with the caldera include Putauaki (Mount Edgecumbe) and the maar crater of Lake Rotokawau which is most likely to have formed from a basaltic dike extrusion associated with the common magma mush body."

Within 4.0km, or within sight

Yes (what does this mean?)

Via park(s): Crater Block Crown Land; Lake Tarawera Scenic Reserve

Okataina Volcanic Centre

986

0.0 years ago to 625.0k years ago

Phanerozoic

Cenozoic

Quaternary

Pleistocene

Bay of Plenty

Rotorua District

Okataina Volcanic Centre

Tūhoe country

NZTM2000: 1906887, 5762893 (alt: 986m)

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