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cones that over tens of thousands of years have been partly breached and eroded by runoff from the small freshwater lakes appearing in the craters shortly after the eruption. Due to the maars' very gentle rise over the otherwise level terrace of
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is breached on both the west and east sides. It is 250 m × 150 m (820 ft × 490 ft) across and its drained and sediment-filled flat floor is 2–2.5 m (6.6–8.2 ft) below the rim of the surrounding tuff ring.
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craters like these is unique in the Auckland volcanic field. Their ages are unknown but most probably all three erupted during the same eruptive episode. They could have been associated with the eruption of nearby
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lies directly east of Arena Crater on the route of the small stream that drains the latter. Eroded Crater is breached at both west and east ends and its tuff cone partly eroded by the adjacent
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of New Zealand. They were first recognised as volcanic craters in 2011. A cluster of three small
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Hayward, Bruce W.; Kenny, Jill A.; Grenfell, Hugh R. (2011).
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age, their volcanic origin had not been recognised earlier.
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The cluster is composed of three maars, encircled by
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Index


Elevation
Puhinui Reserve
Wiri
Auckland Council
Mountain type
Maar
arc
belt
Auckland volcanic field
Auckland
Puhinui Reserve
Auckland volcanic field
North Island
maar
Matukutureia
tuff
Pleistocene
Puhinui Creek
"Four new volcanoes found under Auckland"
The New Zealand Herald


"Our Changing World: Auckland's New Volcanoes"


"More volcanoes recognised in Auckland Volcanic Field"
ISBN
0-582-71784-1
37°00′53″S 174°49′59″E / 37.01465°S 174.83296°E / -37.01465; 174.83296

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