Erosion and Sedimentation of Taranaki Volcano 

Wow I completely love your posts. So informative and well produced. Thanks so much, I’ve subscribed.

Fascinating. The story of Taranaki is far more interesting than I could have imagined.

That strata gives real meaning to the word stratovolcano. Thanks for this great info!

Having lived most of my childhood in Taranakl and having the good fortune to get to the summit on an open climb ( I hope they still have those ) I love Mt Taranaki and thoroughly enjoyed your informative video . I am living in Canada now with my Canadian husband and family , but my heart unfortunately didn’t come with me , so your video was excellent nourishment for my deprived heart with which I remain in close touch .

I remember the different lava layers seen on the original ‘Desert Road’ on the Volcanic plateau in the central north island.

Very enjoyable, interesting and informative video and beautiful views of geologic structures and landscapes.

Huh, I'd never thought of the ring plain as 'remnant volcano' before. Fascinating. Also, those lahar fields around Pungarehu always make me think of the Barrow-downs as described by Tolkien. :)

So pleased I found this channel! I only wish they were much longer

Excellent description of this magnificent volcano which I saw and was amazed by back in 1970 when as a 19 year old I hitch-hiked around NZ. This explanation helps significantly to my knowledge of geology which inspires my desire to know and understand more. Please keep them coming. Have you done a session on the Lyttleton volcanic complex?

Tumeke 'Out There Learning' - I just love these Documentaries that are about my Homeland & all that history Under our feet. I wish we had this type of Education when I was at school 50's n 60's instead of learning about foreigners - I get it tho would we have had the teachers to do so. Cheers & thank you 4 sharing all that awesome knowledge

Has got to be your most informative video to date. Good work

Love it, bro! Your excitement shines through. I know bugger-all about geology - despite growing up on/in an ancient cluster of volcanoes (Dunedin). I have been to Taranaki, and up the road above tree-level, and wow! Everything there is at an epic scale. Even at a glance I could see the sheer enormity of the events that shaped those slopes. But down here at the fringes, another story plays out. I met a man a long time ago - a survivor of a famous and deadly lahar flow (he was on a train at the time), and so I certainly understand the scale of the things. Millions of them must have come off Taranaki over the years - and your presentation really captures the power and scale of those events. Keep it up!

Fantastic section at the beach/cliff. Many thanks for showing us what we couldn't see ourselves without a drone etc.

Very very interesting especially having spent a lot of time in Taranaki over the years :) , I don't even know how your vid found its way to my feed but subscribed :)

I love the content of these videos, thanks!

Very informative and done in an engaging way, thanks for the vid.

My favourite channel. I hope you guy grow. Absolutely fascinating content

Love the video! Great mahi Julian. 👍🏽

Awesome video! Since I live on an active volcano I have been fascinated by them! Especially how they 'record' the changes in the magnetic field!

This series is so informative. Very well done.

Love your channel

That's where I live and love it!

Great info, thanks!

I have skied on that mountain. The views are astoundingly beautiful!

Really enjoyed your presentation and examples!

these are so interesting! thank you!

Thank you yet again!

Pretty scary when you think about the magnitude of violence involved in some of these events, like the one that decimated a forest so far away, a time-lapse of 20 million years would be epic, but even an animation would be interesting.

This was damn awesome. I love your videos. I only wish I could rename and retag your videos so you get the tens or hundreds of thousands of views that you deserve.

Thank you very informative great video

My beautiful memories, I stayed with couple settled near the summit village for couple of days and we climbed the summit, As we enjoy the views, aged man around 60s sprinted his way to summit and turned back sprinting all the way down to our disbelief. I always fall, injure going down the volcanic slopes. The region so beautiful and can never forget the warmth of the family who allowed us to stay there.

Awesome video, thank you

When I was a lad in the Fifties I had a poster advertising I think NAC. I found the aerial shot of Taranaki fascinating. It was the wonderful symmetry of the natural cone, augmented by the artificial circular boundary between the farmland and the natural forest, and between the cone and the plain surrounding it. Little did I know that, as explained so well here, the plain is mostly the mountain as well Thanks, from an old Aucklander who has only visited the area once in a lifetime.

Explained in very simple terms, an excellent introduction 👍

Very interesting video. Our geology in Ireland is mostly glacial deposits. We have rich metal deposits in our higher ground from gold to lithium. The north of Ireland has an abundance of sand and gravel. Our most prominent geological features are perfect U shaped glacial coastal valleys. Of course our most famous is the giant’s causeway. I do know that Ireland has one of the most diverse and different types of rock of any country in Europe. New zealand has far more interesting geological features than I realised.

Excellent. I love that land

Very interesting and informative!

Great Video, thank you

very cool video

It's all so amazing and young! No banded iron formations here, I think? Thank you for the videos.

I don't see a lot of residents while the camera is rolling. New Zealand is an amazing country.

I lived under the mountain for 7 years it was great, we moved just far enough to still see it but its feels safer .

Thanks for the vid. (I'll keep writing these repetitive comments as I'm told it helps the utube algorithm when recommending vids.) I can write something different than "Thanks for the vid" I assure you, lol.

Muntahan gunung yang luar biasa, banyak batu besar

Excellent video what a tortured area you can only imagine the hell that must have rained down on that ancient forest.

Very interesting

Thankyou

HE Dominates!!! ♾️🦁🏰♾️👸🤴

Well explained

Why didn't the wood rot after it was swept away 100,000 years ago?

I don’t want to nit-pick, but there seems to be a little confusion of vocabulary here, calling the hummocky terrain the result of a “lahar” or volcanic mudflow. “Hummocks” usually describe discrete pieces of a collapsed volcanic edifice that were transported like rafted islands in the midst of a larger avalanche and come to rest largely intact. “Lahars” are channelized flows of poorly sorted sediments mixed with water to move more like wet concrete. When Mt. St. Helens erupted in the USA in 1980 there were numerous processes occurring simultaneously: The over-steepened cone collapsed in a massive earthquake triggered landslide, the exposed magma body detonated in a huge lateral blast producing a Plinian column and pyroclastic flows, and melting glacial ice mixed with loose new and old material for form lahars in the existing river channels that traveled 10’s of kilometers to the Columbia River. Taranaki must have acted similarly producing a variety of deposits that just can’t be described in adequate detail in a 10-minute video. This is a great video taking the viewer all the way from the mountain to volcanic deposits at tidewater. Taranaki has re-built itself into a beautiful mountain, but the deposits in the ring plain tell us that in the future it will erupt again, and probably experience a devastating collapse again producing the whole panoply of volcanic collapse landforms and much human misery. Best to be in Sydney when that happens.

New Zealand’s Nick Zentner. Love your work

I wonder why it is no longer reffered to as Mt Egmont/Taranaki. To me it will always be Mt Egmont.

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Thankyou, for adding to my knowledge of Mt Taranaki. A Freind, took me up from Stratford. The road was deceptive, as we thought, it relatively flat - until the engine began to labour. We got to the snow line, & the alpine growth - the forest, on its flanks, is quite impressive, and so well 'watered', due to the exposed situation of the mountain. Does the material, ejected from Mt Taranaki, have a high iron content, ? - it may go some way to explaining the black sand beaches, in the region

Looking at the shatted burried fragments of tree would suggest a violent event that happened relatively recently in NZ's timeline.

So Auckland cones Ive found have a similar layer stacking on cones ,is it the same system that makes them both,and Rangitoto being half under water does not allow us to see the base falling apart like Taranaki

I wanted to know exactly what those sedimentary basins told us about the time scale? HOw many eruptions; how many collapses and their frequency over how long a time?

average time for cone volume to end up in basin?

gday,,, (04:17) area looks similar to seven sisters - malanda to atherton volcanic zone... good vid thanks for upload... greetings from south island... (tasmania oz hahaha)

How did the wood survive 100000 years? What a great info session,awesome!!! Must be because of oxygen starvation?

Mt Egmont actually

osssh i cant wait til i can afford a half decent pair of hiking boots..already lost 20 kgs in last 10 weeks and am lloking forward to get out hiking

Hi Julian, be careful my friend. When you were higher up Taranaki it looked like some of those boulders were ready to launch. We hear terrible stories of volcanologists who have been caught out by nature, and nature and the laws of physics don't discriminate. Be safe my friend. Pete on the Isle of Wight.

What kind of rock are those big grey boulders up the mountain that will evenually come rolling down and break up into smaller fragments, are they Rhyolite ???

I will suggest to only built MOBILE HOME in a 40 km radius of this huge instable volcano

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An active volcano is not called dormant because its not erupting now. Please don't say its dormant.

Much discussion about the name. My p.o.v. on that was long that it was either "Taranaki" or "Mt Egmont" not "Mt Taranaki" because "tara" means "peak" or summit. If that was the case then it makes no sense to name the province "taranaki" because only the peak is the peak and it is likewise redundant to call it "Mount Taranaki (mount - mountnaki). And in any case why mix languages in a name? If going for a Maori name then call it Maunga Taranaki. Better yet call it Pukehaupapa (which some say was the original Maori name, meaning "ice hill"). I therefore stuck with "Mt Egmont" even though I don't know or care who Egmont was and no doubt it would be possible to find something that gentleman said or wrote that would now be blocked by Twitter. However those who favour Pukehaupapa also claim that "Taranaki" is also a name after a person, just like "Egmont", being named by one Rua Taranaki after his son Tahurangi climbed it. In that case "Tahurangi" would seem a better name. In the meantime my recommendation is that locals refer to it as "the mountain".

Don't forget that it is also called Mt. Egmont by the great navigator James Cook.... please acknowledge that 200 year tradition that is not too different in time to the 7-800 year tradition by the peoples who first settled Taranaki.... both of which are miniscule compared to the geological age of the mountain itself - which can be measured in millions of years.

What is height of this mountain ⛰ We can calculate it's eruption time as it's very easy by some formula so we calculated the date and exactly that second at which it's eruption occurred very easily

Why should I have to pay for this video clip on RU-vid when this maunga is part of my family history

define "sacred."

Mt egmont

Never has been and never will be Mt egmont. Stop dropping 1080 and killing the wild life

Mount Egmont is the correct name and the name of our country is New Zealand !! 👍👍👍🌺🌺

Thanks!... I prefer to call it Mt Egmont others can call it Mt Taranaki 👍🇳🇿

Mt Egmont,still is ,will always be.