It covers the remains of several volcanic craters, notably those of the dormant Taupō volcano in the northeastern portion of the lake. A series of cataclysmic eruptions at Taupō and other nearby volcanoes some 1,800 years ago created the large caldera (collapsed volcano) that the lake now occ...
Taupo is on the North Island of New Zealand and sits on the shores of Lake Taupo (hence the name). It’s part of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, an area that has had high volcanic activity for the past 2 million years. Lake Taupo itself is the flooded caldera of the Taupo Volcano (and th...
the rest of the void network and, therefore, cannot be accessed by fluids. Connected (or effective) porosity refers to void spaces that are interconnected and can, therefore, contribute to permeability. This study focuses only on connected porosity. Many studies have described the control of the ...
At the bottom of Aladdin's Cave, the vent of an ancient volcano, a jade-green pool was once used by Māori women as a beauty parlor, which is how the name Orakei Korako (A Place of Adorning) originated. The valley is 37 km (23 miles) north of Taupō, via Highway 1, and takes...
Discharge of hydrothermal fluids on the seafloor 13 km southwest of White Island volcano has been directly observed at 167 m depth by submersible of the research vessel Calypso. The vents were located on an anhydrite mound several metres high, which we name the Calypso vents. Activity had been...