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Mount Pureora

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deposits are to the north west. Other surface deposits are as in fuller key while mixed erosive volcanic surface deposits are uncoloured. Clicking on the map enlarges it, and enables panning and mouseover of volcano name/wikilink and ages before present. Key for the
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has a prominence above the surrounding countryside of about 450 m (1,480 ft) and a diameter of 5 km (3.1 mi). It is to the south west of a smaller pleioscene
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Pittari, Adrian; Prentice, Marlena L.; McLeod, Oliver E.; Zadeh, Elham Yousef; Kamp, Peter J. J.; Danišík, Martin; Vincent, Kirsty A. (2021).
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to avoid confusion with the township, locality and Forest Park) is an extinct 1,165 metres (3,822 ft) high
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trail which incorporates the Timber trail and a branch of this called the Toi Toi track accessible off
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The mountain top is accessed by several trails and has bike access. These include a portion of the
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near the township of Pureora. The Mount Pureora track is accessible also from back roads off
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The mountain is covered in native forest and quite near the geographical centre of the
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which is slightly to its west. It is located on the boundary of the
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Elevation
Coordinates
38°33′07″S 175°37′40″E / 38.551872°S 175.627846°E / -38.551872; 175.627846
Mount Pureora is located in North Island
Waikato
New Zealand
Age of rock
Pleistocene
Mountain type
Stratovolcano
Last eruption
Easiest route
Te Araroa
Mount Titiraupenga
volcanics
basalt
monogenetic
Northland Allochthon
dacite
andesite
rhyolite
ignimbrite
basaltic
andesite
stratovolcano
Pureora Forest Park
Lake Taupō
Te KÅ«iti
North Island Volcanic Plateau

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