The emplacement of overlapping submarine deposits of monogenetic Surtseyan-style volcanoes onto a submerged continental shelf that built-up over millions of years in the Waiareka-Deborah Volcanic Field, New Zealand

• Main Author: Moorhouse, Benjamin Luke
• Other Authors: White, James
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Otago 2015
• Subjects: Surtseyan; monogenetic; volcanoes; submarine; New Zealand; Northeast Otago; Waiareka-Deborah Volcanics; Surtsey
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/6012

Since the eruption of Surtsey (1963 - 1965) many studies have been made of the resulting island, but the pre-emergent base remains submarine, un-incised and little studied. The same is true for many recently studied Surtseyan volcanoes, and means the pre-emergent parts of subaqueous eruptions are no...