Kakepuku Volcano
Updated: Sep 18, 2024 14:13 GMT -
Lava cone(s) 450 m / 1476 ft
New Zealand, -38.07°S / 175.25°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
New Zealand, -38.07°S / 175.25°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Kakepuku volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than 2.58 million years ago (Pleistocene)
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Background
Kakepuku is less eroded than neighboring Pliocene-lower Pleistocene Pirongia volcano (Briggs 1983). A flank cone lies to the north, and the Te Kawa lava cone, the only volcano of the Alexandra volcanic group to retain a crater, lies to the SE.---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information
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