Mount Tauhara
Mount Tauhara is a dormant lava dome volcano in New Zealand's North Island, reaching above sea level. It is situated in the area of caldera rim overlap of the Whakamaru Caldera and Taupō Volcano towards the centre of the Taupō Volcanic Zone, which stretches from Whakaari / White Island in the north to Mount Ruapehu in the south. It is east of the town of Taupō, next to the northeastern shore of Lake Taupō.
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- Map centred on Mount Tauhara that shows approximate selected surface volcanic deposits with dacite in purple, and rhyolite in violet. Rhyolitic ignimbrite surface deposits are various shades of violet from eruptions of the Taupō Volcano. Clicking on the map enlarges it, and enables panning and mouseover of volcanic deposits name/wikilink and ages before present for wider volcanic context. The key to the shading of other volcanics that are shown (active in last million years odd) with panning is basalt - brown, monogenic basalts - dark brown, undifferentiated basalts of the Tangihua Complex in Northland Allochthon - light brown, arc basalts - deep orange brown, arc ring basalts -orange brown, andesite - red, basaltic andesite`- light red, and plutonic - gray. White shading has been used for postulated calderas (usually subsurface now).
- Type
- Lava dome
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- Location
- North Island, New Zealand
- Map Size
- 180
- Elevation M
- 1088
- Easiest Route
- Hike
- Last Eruption
- Around 63,000 BCE
- Volcanic Zone
- Taupō Volcanic Zone
- Label Position
- right