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Banks Peninsula, New Zealand (Patreon)

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2022-01-29 23:15:34
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The Banks Peninsula on the South Island of New Zealand is a geologic oddity of sorts as it stands out in the surrounding landscape, far away from any regional topography. It represents the emergent summit of two large shield volcanoes, which occur alongside several other rhyolite, basalt, and dacite rich volcanic centers. I will be covering this topic in a future video! Any questions?

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Colin Rose

It's beautiful geology, which I can't get enough of at ground level - also makes it dead easy to spot where I live from space-based imagery! :)

Anonymous

I used to live there. We had an earthquake in 2011 which while only a 6.3 magnitude had a peak ground acceleration of 2.2g, one of the highest recorded.

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>>76745632

That quake was centered just underneath the northern part of the complex. Hopefully you and others close to you were unharmed by that disaster. Was caused by a SSW trending blind fault