Formation of Fe-rich subsurface precipitate layers on White Island, New Zealand

• Main Author: Win, Noel Antony
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Canterbury. Geological Sciences 2014
• Subjects: White Island; Volcanic; Hydrothermal; Geochemistry; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Microbes; Fe-rich precipitates; Epithermal; New Zealand; Bay of Plenty; Main Crater
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26021/7944; https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/9660

White Island is a highly active volcano with an acidic, S-rich hydrothermal system in the Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand. In this acidic environment a series of subsurface Fe-rich layers are ubiquitous in the crater sediments at shallow depth and are capable of modifying the flow and gas f...