MountTaranaki (Māori: Taranaki Maunga, also known as Mount Egmont) is a dormant stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's
000 years ago, Mount Tauhara was not a violently explosive vent, instead slowly oozing a viscous dacitic lava. It is the largest mass of dacite within the
potentially active andesitic Taranaki group of stratovolcanoes that have a history of collapse events. To the east of Auckland is the dacite stratovolcano of Little
years ago) before creating the large stratovolcano called MountTaranaki, (former name Mount Egmont), which last erupted in 1854, and its satellite vent