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3-D interpretative modelling applied to the geology of the Kawerau geothermal system, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

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40Ar/39Ar ages of silicic volcanic rocks in the Tauranga‐Kaimai area, New Zealand: Dating the transition between volcanism in the Coromandel Arc and the Taupo Volcanic Zone

scientific article published in September 2005

40Ar/39Ar dating of Quaternary feldspar: Examples from the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

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A Tectonic Origin for the Largest Marsquake Observed by InSight

scientific article published on 17 October 2023

A cascade of magmatic events during the assembly and eruption of a super-sized magma body ⬇️

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A comment on: magma residence and eruption at the Taupō Volcanic Center (Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand)—insights from rhyolite-MELTS geobarometry, diffusion chronometry, and crystal textures, by AS Pamukçu et al., Contrib Mineral Petrol 175:4

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A comment on: ‘TitaniQ under pressure: the effect of pressure and temperature on the solubility of Ti in quartz’, by Jay B. Thomas, E. Bruce Watson, Frank S. Spear, Philip T. Shemella, Saroj K. Nayak and Antonio Lanzirotti

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A future magma inflation event under the rhyolitic Taupo volcano, New Zealand: Numerical models based on constraints from geochemical, geological, and geophysical data

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A high resolution 40Ar/39Ar lava chronology and edifice construction history for Tongariro volcano, New Zealand

article by Leo R. Pure et al published October 2020 in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

A multiple-approach radiometric age estimate for the Rotoiti and Earthquake Flat eruptions, New Zealand, with implications for the MIS 4/3 boundary

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A new 14C age for the Oruanui (Wairakei) eruption, New Zealand

article by Colin James Ness Wilson et al published May 1988 in Geological Magazine

A new date for the Taupo eruption, New Zealand

scientific article published in Nature

A revised age for the Kawakawa/Oruanui tephra, a key marker for the Last Glacial Maximum in New Zealand

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A vesicularity index for pyroclastic deposits

A zircon U-Pb geochronology for the Rotokawa geothermal system, New Zealand, with implications for Taupō Volcanic Zone evolution

scientific article published in January 2020

Absence of low-δ18O magmas despite widespread assimilation of altered crust in a large magmatic and hydrothermal province

scholarly article

Age and eruptive center of the Paeroa Subgroup ignimbrites (Whakamaru Group) within the Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zealand

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An exceptionally widespread ignimbrite with implications for pyroclastic flow emplacement

scientific article published in Nature

An ignimbrite veneer deposit: The trail-marker of a pyroclastic flow

An integrated proximal-distal radiocarbon dating approach provides improved age constraints for a key Holocene tephra isochron

An outline geochemistry of rhyolite eruptives from Taupo volcanic centre, New Zealand

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Analyzing nitrogen in natural and synthetic silicate glasses by secondary ion mass spectrometry

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Ascent rates of rhyolitic magma at the onset of three caldera-forming eruptions

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 103 no. 6, June 2018

Assembling an Ignimbrite: Mechanical and Thermal Building Blocks in the Bishop Tuff, California

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Assembling an ignimbrite: Compositionally defined eruptive packages in the 1912 Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes ignimbrite, Alaska

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Ba and Sr isotopic patterns from step‐leaching experiments on the pristine Aguas Zarcas <scp>CM2</scp> meteorite

scientific article published on 19 October 2024

Bubble development in explosive silicic eruptions: insights from pyroclast vesicularity textures from Raoul volcano (Kermadec arc)

Caldera volcanoes of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

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Charring of woods by volcanic processes: An example from the Taupo ignimbrite, New Zealand

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Chemical and isotopic changes induced by pyrometamorphism in metasedimentary xenoliths at Tongariro volcano, New Zealand

scientific article published in November 2021

Chronology and Evolution of Caldera-forming and Post-caldera Magma Systems at Okataina Volcano, New Zealand from Zircon U–Th Model-age Spectra

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Chronology and dynamics of a large silicic magmatic system: Central Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

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Comment on "Rapid cooling and cold storage in a silicic magma reservoir recorded in individual crystals". ⬇️

scientific article published in December 2017

Comment on “Evidence for long residence times of rhyolitic magma in the Long Valley magmatic system: the isotopic record in precaldera lavas of Glass Mountain” by A.N. Halliday, G.A. Mahood, P. Holden, J.M. Metz, T.J. Dempster and J.P. Davidson

Comment on “Stratified flow in pyroclastic surges”, by G.A Valentine

Complex proximal deposition during the Plinian eruptions of 1912 at Novarupta, Alaska

scholarly article by Bruce F. Houghton et al published 1 February 2004 in Bulletin of Volcanology

Complex proximal sedimentation from Plinian plumes: the example of Tarawera 1886

Complexities of plinian fall deposition at vent: an example from the 1912 Novarupta eruption (Alaska)

scholarly article by J. Fierstein et al published April 1997 in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Compositional Zoning of the Bishop Tuff

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Conceptual Development of a National Volcanic Hazard Model for New Zealand

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Contrasting grain size and componentry in complex proximal deposits of the 1886 Tarawera basaltic Plinian eruption

Contrasting perspectives on the Lava Creek Tuff eruption, Yellowstone, from new U–Pb and 40Ar/39Ar age determinations

Contrasting pyroclast density spectra from subaerial and submarine silicic eruptions in the Kermadec arc: implications for eruption processes and dredge sampling

Coordinated Hubble Space Telescope and Venus Express Observations of Venus’ upper cloud deck

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Correction to: Contrasting perspectives on the Lava Creek Tuff eruption, Yellowstone, from new U–Pb and 40Ar/39Ar age determinations

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Correspondence: The Taupo eruption occurred in 232 ± 10 CE, and not later

Crystallisation ages in coeval silicic magma bodies: 238U–230Th disequilibrium evidence from the Rotoiti and Earthquake Flat eruption deposits, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

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Dating the Kawakawa/Oruanui eruption: Comment on “Optical luminescence dating of a loess section containing a critical tephra marker horizon, SW North Island of New Zealand” by R. Grapes et al

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Deep-seated fractionation during the rise of a small-volume basalt magma batch: Crater Hill, Auckland, New Zealand

article by I. E. M. Smith et al published 5 October 2007 in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Delayed sedimentary response to the A.D. 1886 eruption of Tarawera, New Zealand

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Development, mobilisation and eruption of a large crystal-rich rhyolite: The Ongatiti ignimbrite, New Zealand

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Dilute gravity current and rain-flushed ash deposits in the 1.8?ka Hatepe Plinian deposit, Taupo, New Zealand

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Diverse patterns of ascent, degassing, and eruption of rhyolite magma during the 1.8ka Taupo eruption, New Zealand: Evidence from clast vesicularity

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Double trouble: Paired ignimbrite eruptions and collateral subsidence in the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

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Dynamics of deep submarine silicic explosive eruptions in the Kermadec arc, as reflected in pumice vesicularity textures

Emplacement of Taupo ignimbrite

scientific article published in Nature

Environmental impact of the 1.8 ka Taupo eruption, New Zealand: Landscape responses to a large-scale explosive rhyolite eruption

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Eruptive and environmental processes recorded by diatoms in volcanically dispersed lake sediments from the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

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Evacuation of multiple magma bodies and the onset of caldera collapse in a supereruption, captured in glass and mineral compositions

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Evidence for limited zonation in silicic magma systems, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

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Evidence from zircon U-Pb age spectra for crustal structure and felsic magma genesis at Taupo volcano, New Zealand

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Evolution of a Quaternary peralkaline volcano: Mayor Island, New Zealand

scholarly article published by Colin James Ness Wilson in 1992

Evolution of the intra-arc Taupo-Reporoa Basin within the Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zealand

scientific article published in 2014

Fine-scale temporal recovery, reconstruction and evolution of a post-supereruption magmatic system

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Fines-depleted ignimbrite in New Zealand — The product of a turbulent pyroclastic flow

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Flow-head deposits in ash turbidites

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From mush to eruption in centuries: assembly of the super-sized Oruanui magma body

article by Aidan S. R. Allan et al published 17 March 2013 in Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Generation and Rejuvenation of a Supervolcanic Magmatic System: a Case Study from Mangakino Volcanic Centre, New Zealand

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Geochemical zoning and eruptive mixing in ignimbrites from Mangakino volcano, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

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Geochemistry and Petrogenesis of Silicic Magmas in the Intra-Oceanic Kermadec Arc

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Geologic map of the Paeroa Fault block and surrounding area, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

article by Drew T. Downs et al published 2020 in Open-File Report

Growth of volcanic ash aggregates in the presence of liquid water and ice: an experimental approach

High-flying diatoms: Widespread dispersal of microorganisms in an explosive volcanic eruption

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High-precision 40Ar/39Ar dating of Quaternary basalts from Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand, with implications for eruption rates and paleomagnetic correlations

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Highly vesicular pumice generated by buoyant detachment of magma in subaqueous volcanism

Hybrid fall deposits in the Bishop Tuff, California: A novel pyroclastic depositional mechanism

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Ignimbrite depositional facies: the anatomy of a pyroclastic flow

scientific article published in 1982

Implications of a Supervolcano’s Seismicity

scientific article published on 5 March 2020

Inferring magma ascent timescales and reconstructing conduit processes in explosive rhyolitic eruptions using diffusive losses of hydrogen from melt inclusions

Large-scale interaction of lake water and rhyolitic magma during the 1.8 ka Taupo eruption, New Zealand

article by B. F. Houghton et al published 2003 in Geophysical Monograph

Lateral variations in the taupo ignimbrite

Lava-ice interaction on a large composite volcano: a case study from Ruapehu, New Zealand

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Lithic types in ignimbrites as a guide to the evolution of a caldera complex, Taupo volcanic centre, New Zealand

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Lithium concentration gradients in feldspar and quartz record the final minutes of magma ascent in an explosive supereruption

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Long-duration Venus lander for seismic and atmospheric science ⬇️

scholarly article by Tibor Kremic et al published October 2020 in Planetary and Space Science

Low-aspect ratio ignimbrites

scientific article published in Nature

Mafic inputs into the rhyolitic magmatic system of the 2.08 Ma Huckleberry Ridge eruption, Yellowstone

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Mapping Stress and Structure From Subducting Slab to Magmatic Rift: Crustal Seismic Anisotropy of the North Island, New Zealand

scientific article published in November 2019

Melt pockets in phenocrysts and decompression rates of silicic magmas before fragmentation

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Micro-analytical Perspectives on the Bishop Tuff and its Magma Chamber

Millimetre‐scale pollen analysis of non‐varved lacustrine sediments from Onepoto maar palaeolake, Auckland, reveals distal vegetation responses and landscape recovery following the ~25.5‐ka Ōruanui supereruption, New Zealand

scientific article published in 2023

Mixed deposits of complex magmatic and phreatomagmatic volcanism: an example from Crater Hill, Auckland, New Zealand

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Mixing and differentiation in the Oruanui rhyolitic magma, Taupo, New Zealand: evidence from volatiles and trace elements in melt inclusions

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Mobility of rare earth and other elements during crystallization of peralkaline silicic lavas

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Modeling Ash Dispersal From Future Eruptions of Taupo Supervolcano

scientific article published in July 2019

Modelling the in situ solar and thermal radiation environment for future entry probe missions to Venus

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Multi-criteria correlation of tephra deposits to source centres applied in the Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand

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New Perspectives on the Bishop Tuff from Zircon Textures, Ages and Trace Elements

New Zealand supereruption provides time marker for the Last Glacial Maximum in Antarctica

scientific article published on 25 September 2017

New petrological, geochemical, and geochronological perspectives on andesite-dacite magma genesis at Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand

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No single model for supersized eruptions and their magma bodies

scientific article published on 27 July 2021

Nucleosynthetic, radiogenic and stable strontium isotopic variations in fine- and coarse-grained refractory inclusions from Allende

scientific article published in November 2019

Orientation of logs in the Taupo Ignimbrite as an indicator of flow direction and vent position

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Os isotopic constraints on crustal contamination in Auckland Volcanic Field basalts, New Zealand

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Paleohydrology and sedimentology of a post–1.8 ka breakout flood from intracaldera Lake Taupo, North Island, New Zealand

scholarly article published by Colin James Ness Wilson in 1999

Petrography and geochemistry of lithic fragments in ignimbrites from the Mangakino Volcanic Centre: Implications for the composition of the subvolcanic crust in western Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

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Photolysis controls the isotopic composition of water products escaping Mars’ atmosphere

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Post-supereruption Magmatic Reconstruction of Taupo Volcano (New Zealand), as Reflected in Zircon Ages and Trace Elements

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Pre-eruptive volatile content and degassing history of an evolving peralkaline volcano

scholarly article by J. Barclay et al published November 1996 in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Prolonged ascent and episodic venting of discrete magma batches at the onset of the Huckleberry Ridge supereruption, Yellowstone

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Pyroclastic Density Currents and the Sedimentation of Ignimbrites. By M. J. Branney and B. P. Kokelaar. Geological Society of London Memoir 27. London: Geological Society of London, 2002. 143 pages

scientific article published in January 2005

Pyroclastic phases of a rhyolitic dome-building eruption: Puketarata tuff ring, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

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Quartz zoning and the pre-eruptive evolution of the ~340-ka Whakamaru magma systems, New Zealand

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Rapid Rates of Magma Generation at Contemporaneous Magma Systems, Taupo Volcano, New Zealand: Insights from U–Th Model-age Spectra in Zircons

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Rapid assembly and rejuvenation of a large silicic magmatic system: Insights from mineral diffusive profiles in the Kidnappers and Rocky Hill deposits, New Zealand ⬇️

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Rapid assembly of high-Mg andesites and dacites by magma mixing at a continental arc stratovolcano

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Rapid open-system assembly of a large silicic magma body: time-resolved evidence from cored plagioclase crystals in the Oruanui eruption deposits, New Zealand

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Rapid priming, accumulation, and recharge of magma driving recent eruptions at a hyperactive caldera volcano ⬇️

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Reconstructing the geological and structural history of an active geothermal field: A case study from New Zealand

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Reply to 'Magma balloons or bombs?'

Revision of New Frontiers Goals for a Venus Mission

Ruapehu and Tongariro stratovolcanoes: a review of current understanding

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Spatial and temporal variations in magma-assisted rifting, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

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Stable strontium isotopic heterogeneity in the solar system from double-spike data

Stratigraphy and structure of the Ngatamariki geothermal system from new zircon U–Pb geochronology: Implications for Taupo Volcanic Zone evolution

scholarly article by Isabelle Chambefort et al published March 2014 in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Structure and evolution of the Wairakei–Tauhara geothermal system (Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand) revisited with a new zircon geochronology

scientific article published in January 2020

Systematic tapping of independent magma chambers during the 1Ma Kidnappers supereruption

Taupo Volcanic Zone calc-alkaline tephras on the peralkaline Mayor Island volcano, New Zealand: identification and uses as marker horizons

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Taupo's atypical arc

scientific article published in Nature

Taupō: an overview of New Zealand's youngest supervolcano

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Taupōinflate: illustrating detection limits of magmatic inflation below Lake Taupō

Temporal evolution and compositional signatures of two supervolcanic systems recorded in zircons from Mangakino volcanic centre, New Zealand

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Textural and micro-analytical insights into mafic–felsic interactions during the Oruanui eruption, Taupo

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The 26.5 ka Oruanui eruption, New Zealand: A review of the roles of volcanism and climate in the post‐eruptive sedimentary response

scientific article (publication date: September 2004)

The Bishop Tuff: New Insights From Eruptive Stratigraphy

scientific article published in July 1997

The CO2 continuum absorption in the 1.10- and 1.18-μm windows on Venus from Maxwell Montes transits by SPICAV IR onboard Venus express

The Huckleberry Ridge Tuff, Yellowstone: evacuation of multiple magmatic systems in a complex episodic eruption

scientific article published on 28 June 2019

The Life and Times of Silicic Volcanic Systems

scientific article published in 2016

The Mesozoic terrane boundary beneath the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, and potential controls on geothermal system characteristics

article by Sarah D. Milicich et al published 23 September 2020 in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

The Taupo Eruption, New Zealand I. General Aspects

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The Taupo Eruption, New Zealand II. The Taupo Ignimbrite

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The Tectonomagmatic Source of Ore Metals and Volatile Elements in the Southern Kermadec Arc

The compositional diversity and temporal evolution of an active andesitic arc stratovolcano: Tongariro, Taupō Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

scholarly article

The hydrothermal evolution of the Kawerau geothermal system, New Zealand

article by Sarah D. Milicich et al published March 2018 in Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

The influence of conduit processes on changes in style of basaltic Plinian eruptions: Tarawera 1886 and Etna 122 BC

The invisible hand: Tectonic triggering and modulation of a rhyolitic supereruption

article by Aidan S.R. Allan et al published June 2012 in Geology

The nature and age of Ohakuri Formation and Ohakuri Group rocks in surface exposures and geothermal drillhole sequences in the central Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

scholarly article published by Colin James Ness Wilson in 2006

The nature, origins and distribution of ash aggregates in a large-scale wet eruption deposit: Oruanui, New Zealand

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The petrology, phase relations and tectonic setting of basalts from the taupo volcanic zone, New Zealand and the Kermadec Island arc - havre trough, SW Pacific

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The role of fluidization in the emplacement of pyroclastic claws: An experimental approach

The volcanic, magmatic and tectonic setting of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, reviewed from a geothermal perspective

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Thermotectonic history of SE China since the Late Mesozoic: insights from detailed thermochronological studies of Hong Kong

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Timescales of mixing and mobilisation in the Bishop Tuff magma body: perspectives from diffusion chronometry ⬇️

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Tools and techniques for developing tephra stratigraphies in lake cores: A case study from the basaltic Auckland Volcanic Field, New Zealand

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Tracking the evolution of Late Mesozoic arc-related magmatic systems in Hong Kong using in-situ U-Pb dating and trace element analyses in zircon

scholarly article in American Mineralogist, vol. 102 no. 11, November 2017

Upper limits on volcanic gases in the Martian atmosphere from the ACS MIR instrument

scientific article published on 23 September 2022

U–Pb dating of zircon in hydrothermally altered rocks as a correlation tool: Application to the Mangakino geothermal field, New Zealand

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U–Pb dating of zircon in hydrothermally altered rocks of the Kawerau Geothermal Field, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

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U–Pb dating of zircon in subsurface, hydrothermally altered pyroclastic deposits and implications for subsidence in a magmatically active rift: Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand

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Venus Corona and Tessera Explorer (VeCaTEx)

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Venus, the Planet: Introduction to the Evolution of Earth's Sister Planet

preprint posted 21 November 2022

Venus, the Planet: Introduction to the Evolution of Earth's Sister Planet

preprint posted 20 July 2022

Vertical density currents: a review of their potential role in the deposition and interpretation of deep-sea ash layers

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Volcanic Hazard in New Zealand: Scaling and Attenuation Relations for Tephra fall deposits from Taupo Volcano

Volcanic Unrest at Taupō Volcano in 2019: Causes, Mechanisms and Implications

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Volcanic and structural evolution of Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand: a review

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Volcanic glass from the 1.8 ka Taupō eruption (New Zealand) detected in Antarctic ice at ~ 230 CE

scientific article published on 9 October 2023

Volcanoes: Characteristics, Tipping Points, and those Pesky Unknown Unknowns

scientific article published in 2017

What lies beneath? Reconstructing the primitive magmas fueling voluminous silicic volcanism using olivine-hosted melt inclusions

scholarly article

Wiggle-match radiocarbon dating of the Taupo eruption

scientific article published on 11 October 2019

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