Birth of a Magma Chamber Beneath New Zealand (IMAGE)

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Birth of a Magma Chamber Beneath New Zealand

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This is a drawing looking south along the Taupo Volcanic Zone showing the subduction of the Pacific Plate under the North Island of New Zealand. Uplift of the surface measured by satellite radar and GPS suggests the presence of a magmatic body beneath the Bay of Plenty coast at a depth of 9.5 km. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 3, 2016, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by I.J. Hamling at GNS Science in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, and colleagues was titled, "Off-axis magmatism along a subaerial back-arc rift: Observations from the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand."

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Image credit to Ian Hamling

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