Revised calendar date for the Taupo eruption derived by ¹⁴C wiggle-matching using a New Zealand kauri ¹⁴C calibration data set

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: Hogg, Alan G., Lowe, David J., Palmer, Jonathan G., Boswijk, Gretel, Ramsey, Christopher Bronk
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sage 2011
• Subjects: ¹⁴C wiggle-match dating; chronostratigraphic marker bed; dendrochronology; kauri; late Holocene; New Zealand; non-welded ignimbrite; radiocarbon; Taupo eruption; Taupo tephra; tephrochronometry; Greenland; Molloy; Greenland ice core; ice core
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/5936; https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683611425551

Taupo volcano in central North Island, New Zealand, is the most frequently active and productive rhyolite volcano on Earth. Its latest explosive activity about 1800 years ago generated the spectacular Taupo eruption, the most violent eruption known in the world in the last 5000 years. We present her...