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    Ōkataina Caldera (Ōkataina Volcanic Centre, also spelled Okataina) is a volcanic caldera and its associated volcanoes located in Taupō Volcanic Zone of...
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    Ōkareka. All lie within the Ōkataina caldera, along its western edge. Unlike many other lakes in the region, Lake Ōkataina is completely encircled by native...
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    Mount Tarawera (category Okataina Volcanic Centre)
    Island of New Zealand within the older but volcanically productive Ōkataina Caldera. Located 24 kilometres southeast of Rotorua, it consists of a series...
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    Lake Rotokākahi (category Okataina Volcanic Centre)
    are Lake Tikitapu (Blue Lake), Lake Ōkāreka, and Lake Ōkataina. All lie within the Ōkataina Caldera, along its western edge. The lake flows to Lake Tarawera...
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    events associated with the Taupō Volcano and the Ōkataina Caldera. As mentioned earlier the Ōkataina caldera complex is the highest risk volcanic field risk...
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    Lake Rotoiti (Bay of Plenty) (category Okataina Volcanic Centre)
    the Ōkataina Volcanic Centre they are believed to be in an area of collapse subsidence outside the north western margins of the Ōkataina Caldera itself...
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  • A caldera (/kɔːlˈdɛrə, kæl-/ kawl-DERR-ə, kal-) is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic...
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    volcanoes, lava plateaus, and crater lakes. It contains the Taupō caldera complex, Ōkataina caldera complex and Tongariro Volcanic Centre resulting in it being...
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  • The Rotoiti Caldera is a postulated, mainly infilled sub caldera of the Ōkataina Caldera based upon gravitational and magnetic evidence. While bathymetry...
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  • Lake Ōkareka (category Okataina Volcanic Centre)
    Rotokakahi (Green Lake), Lake Tikitapu (Blue Lake), and Lake Ōkataina. All lie within the Ōkataina Caldera, along its western edge. The lake has a circumference...
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    The Rotorua Caldera is a large rhyolitic caldera that is filled by Lake Rotorua. It was formed by an eruption 240,000 years ago that produced extensive...
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    Ōkāreka Embayment (category Calderas of New Zealand)
    the old Ōkataina Caldera, often termed the Ōkataina volcanic centre. The caldera forming its eastern boundary has been called the Haroharo Caldera, but as...
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    Puhipuhi Embayment (category Calderas of New Zealand)
    Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zealand associated with the collapse of the Ōkataina Caldera wall to its west. Its latest significant volcanic eruption was about...
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    Lake Rotomahana (category Okataina Volcanic Centre)
    eruption of Mount Tarawera. Along with the mountain, it lies within the Ōkataina Caldera. It is the most recently formed larger natural lake in New Zealand...
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    Lake Tarawera (category Okataina Volcanic Centre)
    North Island of New Zealand. Like the mountain, it lies within the Ōkataina Caldera. It is located 18 kilometres (11 mi) to the east of Rotorua, and beneath...
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  • Green lakes (or Lake Rotokākahi and Lake Tikitapu) associated with the Ōkataina Caldera.: 56  Lake Tarawera is home to various eels and rainbow trout. During...
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    Haroharo vents, as well as Lakes Rotomā and Ōkareka. The Ōkataina Volcanic Centre, one of eight caldera systems in the Taupō Volcanic Zone, is believed to have...
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  • overlapping the Haroharo Caldera or Okataina caldera as part of the Haroharo volcanic complex or Ōkataina volcanic centre. The Haroharo Caldera was within the older...
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    Lake Tikitapu (category Okataina Volcanic Centre)
    Rotoroa rhyolitic eruption sequence, at the south-western margins of the Ōkataina Caldera now dated at 15,635 ± 412 cal.yr BP,: 15  which separates it from Lake...
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    Pink and White Terraces (category Okataina Volcanic Centre)
    of Plenty Region Coordinates 38°15′38″S 176°25′50″E / 38.26056°S 176.43056°E / -38.26056; 176.43056 Spring source Ōkataina Caldera Type Hot spring...
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    vent alignment. This is now regarded as part of the much larger Ōkataina Caldera ( Ōkataina Volcanic Centre). It has been usually classified as part of this...
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    eruptions in Iceland for a Ōkataina mush pocket to erupt many kilometers away, say in an old caldera. See Ōkataina Caldera article for discussion of the...
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    references are also not included. Note: Caldera names tend to change over time. For example, Ōkataina Caldera, Haroharo Caldera, Haroharo volcanic complex, and...
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    Lake Ōkataina, Lake Tarawera, Lake Rotokakahi (Green Lake), Lake Tikitapu (Blue Lake), Lake Okareka, and Lake Rotoiti lie within the Ōkataina Caldera. Taupō...
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  • Manawahe Fault (category Okataina Volcanic Centre)
    Rotoma, volcanic ignimbrite sheets from multiple eruptions of the Ōkataina Caldera extend towards the Whakatane Graben with the volcanic region being...
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    Paeroa Fault (category Okataina Volcanic Centre)
    south western border of the Ōkataina Volcanic Centre. The Ngapouri-Rotomahana Fault too extends to the Ōkataina Caldera and is a splay from the Paeroa...
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    of 7 m3/s (250 cu ft/s),: 491  from effectively a watershed of the Ōkataina Caldera, with its risk of volcanic activity disrupting river flow. At this...
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    Lake Rotoehu (category Okataina Volcanic Centre)
    town of Whakatāne. The southern end of the lake occupies part of the Okataina caldera. It is fed (underground seepage) by Lake Rotoma to the east, and flows...
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    lake's maximum high stand, definitely after the Rotoiti eruption of the Ōkataina Caldera, with formation of a channel within the western lake floor of Lake...
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    systems in the recently active central rhyolitic caldera segments at the Taupō Volcano and Ōkataina Caldera. In the later case, the strike of the basaltic...
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