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    The Oruanui eruption of New Zealand's Taupō Volcano (also known as the Kawakawa eruption or Kawakawa/Oruanui event) was the world's most recent supereruption...
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    landscape are the dacitic Mount Tauhara eruption 65,000 years ago, the Oruanui eruption about 25,500 years ago, which is responsible for the shape of...
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  • Oruanui (Māori: Ōruanui) is a rural community in the Taupō District and Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island, located northwest of Wairakei on...
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    triggering of a small ice age) and threaten species with extinction. The Oruanui eruption of New Zealand's Taupō Volcano (about 25,600 years ago) was the...
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    has been active for 300,000 years with a very large event known as the Oruanui eruption occurring approximately 25,600 years ago. It was the world's largest...
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    canyon is carved into lake floor sediments laid down before Taupō Volcano's Oruanui eruption 26,500 years ago. The volume of water flowing through often approaches...
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  • the largest phreatomagmatic eruption characterised to date. This was the Oruanui eruption of the Taupō Volcano about 25,500 years ago, which was the largest...
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    Tambora 1991 Mount Pinatubo eruption 2022 Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai eruption Oruanui eruption Toba supereruption Yellowstone Caldera SN 1006 SN 1572 Kepler's...
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    VEI-8 eruptions have been identified. The most recent is Lake Taupō's Oruanui eruption, more than 27,000 years ago, which means that there have not been...
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    Taupō. Taupō has a history of incredibly powerful eruptions, with the Oruanui eruption approx. 26,500 years ago ejecting 1,170 cubic kilometres (280...
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    rivers: the Waihou River, Piako River and Waitakaruru River. Prior to the Oruanui eruption 27,000 years ago, the Waikato River also flowed into the Hauraki...
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    form the landscape originated around 20,000 years ago (20 kya), after the Oruanui eruption of the Taupō Volcano. The dates given for the eruption vary. A...
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    part of the LGM by the world's most recent supervolcanic eruption, the Oruanui eruption, approximately 25,500 years BP. However, it is estimated that...
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    Taupō erupted an estimated 1,170 km3 (280 cu mi) of DRE material in its Oruanui eruption 25,580 years ago. This was Earth's most recent eruption reaching...
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    N.; Blake, S.; Charlier, B. L. A.; Sutton, A. N. (2006). "The 26.5 ka Oruanui Eruption, Taupo Volcano, New Zealand: Development, Characteristics and...
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    million years ago before returning to its Hinuera course. After the huge Oruanui eruption 27,000 years ago ignimbrite was showered all over the North Island...
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    eruption further expanded the lake that had formed after the much larger Oruanui eruption around 26,500 years ago. The previous outlet was blocked, raising...
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    Lake Huka which was destroyed in the 25,600 years ago Oruanui eruption.: 541  After the Oruanui eruption there is evidence for a temporary lake in the...
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  • active period between 36.1 and 23.65 ka BP and after the Taupō Volcano Oruanui eruption it has reduced to 0.26 mm (0.010 in)/year. It is believed to have...
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    fall and ignimbrite 8 Taupō Volcano Taupō Volcanic Zone 1170 1170 26.5 Oruanui eruption 6 Morne Diablotins Dominica, Lesser Antilles island arc 14 14...
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    recent eruptions from the Taupō Volcano are perhaps the best known. Its Oruanui eruption was the world's largest known eruption in the past 70,000 years...
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    Reston, Virginia. Manville, Vern & Wilson, Colin J. N. (2004). "The 26.5 ka Oruanui eruption, New Zealand: a review of the roles of volcanism and climate in...
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    Volcanic ash aggregates (accretionary lapilli) in ignimbrite from the Oruanui eruption of Taupo volcano, New Zealand....
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    covered over by deposits from other eruptive centres such as those of the Oruanui eruption. The caldera can be defined by gravitational measurements as 30 km...
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    Mokai. A Government road facilitated transportation between the siding, Oruanui, Wairakei, and Taupō. A typical TTT train consisted of one locomotive (or...
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  • Oruanui Rangatira Park Kinloch Nukuhau Tauhara Acacia Bay (Lake Taupō) Taupō Central...
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    60 to 90m above lake level that was formed after the 26,500 years ago Oruanui eruption when initially the new lake flowed out at Waihora 20 km (12 mi)...
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  • the Waikato River, the course of which was drastically altered by the Oruanui eruption 25,000 years ago. List of rivers of New Zealand "Place name detail:...
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    sculpture). First known spear thrower or atlatl. Humans present in Mexico. Oruanui eruption in New Zealand. Use of natural fiber for baby carriers, clothes...
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    1029/JB089iB10p08485. Dunbar, Nelia W Wilson, Colin J. N. (2001). "The 26.5 ka Oruanui eruption, New Zealand: an introduction and overview". Journal of Volcanology...
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