Mount Tarawera

For example, in 1886 Mount Tarawera in New Zealand produced a violently explosive basalt eruption because rising magma interacted explosively with shallow ground water.

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One of these, Mount Tarawera, was situated in what was called the Hot Lake district, because there were not only boiling springs, but pools of hot water there.

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

Mount Tarawera had been asleep for a hundred and twenty years, so that it was supposed to have burnt itself out, and to be no longer dangerous.

Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation Caroline Pridham

It was to their action that we owed the famous white and pink terraces and the warm lake of Rotomahana which were ruined by the destructive eruption of Mount Tarawera, already described.

The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877

At a place called Rotomahana, in the vicinity of Mount Tarawera, there was formerly a lake of about one hundred and twenty acres in area, which was in its way one of the most remarkable bodies of water upon the earth.

The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877

The range of Mount Tarawera seemed to be in full volcanic activity, including some craters supposed to be extinct, and embracing an area of one hundred and twenty miles by twenty.

The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877

Mount Tarawera is said to be five hundred feet higher than before the eruption; glowing masses were thrown up into the air, and tongues of fiery hue, gases or illuminated vapors, five hundred feet wide, towered up one thousand feet high.

The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire Charles Morris 1877

A short distance down the road there is a good view of Mount Tarawera over the lake.

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Instead, we visit Te Waioura, a village that was buried in mud in the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera.

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