27 Locations 3 Reviews 35 Visitors 2022 Nomination Year. Hazard assessment: Auckland Volcanic Field Hazard assessment The use of all available tools to determine the location, intensity, frequency and probability of a potentially damaging volcanic event and to depict that information in a comprehensive way for civil authorities and planners, usually on a hazards map. Load map. It includes 49 separate volcanoes, each of which is considered extinct. His new book, Volcanoes of Auckland: A Field Guide, is a revamp of the earlier Essential Guide. Auckland Volcanic Field magmatism, volcanism, and hazard: a review. About three quarters of the more than 400 photos, maps and diagrams are new. The Auckland Volcanic Field covers around 360 square kilometres under Auckland city. This means they will not erupt again with the exception of Rangitoto Island, which is dormant. Real-time eruption forecasting using the BET_EF (Bayesian Event Tree for Eruption Forecasting) method has recently been tested for the Auckland Volcanic Field (Lindsay et al., 2010). Auckland Volcanic Fields. Basalt volcanic fields are also found in Northland – for example, near Kaikohe, Bay of Islands, and Whāngārei – where there is a wide range of ages dating from about 60,000 years to about 10 million years. The Auckland volcanic field is an area of monogenetic volcanoes covered by much of the metropolitan area of Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, located in the North Island.The approximately 53 volcanoes [1] in the field have produced a diverse array of maars (explosion craters), tuff rings, scoria cones, and lava flows.

The Auckland volcanic field is the most densely populated field of its type in the world. Dormant means a volcano has had no volcanic activity for many years, and in the case of Rangitoto Island the last recorded eruption was more than 550 years ago. Auckland Volcanic Field are essential for probabilistic forecasting of eruptions (Cronin et al., 2001). Click here for a short description of the site, as delivered by the state party. The Auckland volcanic field is made up of over 53 volcanoes and these volcanoes are extinct. There’s a set of maps for each volcano, showing where all things of geological, historic, archaeological and recreational interest can be seen during a visit.

Auckland Volcanic Fields is part of the Tentative list of New Zealand in order to qualify for inclusion in the World Heritage List.

However the field as a whole remains active. Find out about some of these volcanoes in this interactive map. NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS 10.1080/00288306.2020.1736102 Other University of Auckland co-authors: Jennifer Eccles , Kasper van Wijk , Ian Smith , Jan Lindsay , Shane Cronin Map of Auckland Volcanic Fields.