Glacial Chronology of the New Zealand Pleistocene

Gage, Maxwell; Suggate, R. P.

doi:10.1130/0016-7606(1958)69[589:gcotnz]2.0.co;2

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“…Three sets of terraces of proved glacial age can be traced down stream from moraines in the headwater areas. The heights, forms, and degree of weathering of these terraces and associated moraines indicate that they probably belong to the last or Otiran Glacial Stage (Gage and Suggate, 1958) though the oldest may be penultimate. The major terraces are aggradational; other, lower ones in each set may be degradational.…”

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Terraces of the Hurunui River, New Zealand

Powers

1962

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

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Terraces of the Hurunui River, New Zealand

Powers

1962

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

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“…Their lack of dissection, in spite of the steepness and slope length of their flanks, and their sharp regular ridge crests suggest a correlation with the youngest of the Pleistocene moraines of South Island, the Poulter (Gage and Suggate, 1958) or Hawera (McKellar, 1960) moraines of slightly more than 15,000 years ago.…”

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A contribution to the geology of the Mount Tongariro massif, North Island, New Zealand

Mathews

1967

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

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New geological mapping of the Mount Tongariro massif indicates that it is a multiple volcano, the cones of its southern portion, apart from Mount Ngauruhoe, being substantially older than those of its northern portion where much of the latest activity has occurred. Evidence favouring the development of a caldera is lacking; evidence against such a caldera is strong. Large late Pleistocene moraines have been recognised at the mouths of three of the southern valleys. Welded agglomerate is widespread. The conspicuous flat top of North Crater has apparently developed by ponding of lava within a continuous ring of welded agglomerate and has been modified by a local explosion in the north-western part of the crater.

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“…In correlation with the three glacial advances of the Otirian Glacial Stage (Gage and Suggate, 1958;Gage, 1961), the periglacial phase at 37,500 years ago possibly corresponds with the Kumara-1 advance in Westland, the Takapu Stadial (23,000 to 20,800 years ago) closely corresponds with the Kumara-2 advance, and the periglacial phase of ?11,000 years ago possibly corresponds with the Kumara-3 advance.…”

Section: Quaternary Geological History In the Porirua Areamentioning

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“…Associated with the solifluction layers are beds of clay and silt, which appear to be either weathered loess or the products of soliflual sheet-action in a terrain of intensely weathered bedrock and superficial deposits-more likely the former. From their position-older than the intense red weathering of probable Last Interglacial age-these periglacial deposits may be tentatively correlated with deposits of the Waimaungan Glacial Stage in the South Island (Gage and Suggate, 1958;Gage, 1961).…”

Section: Quaternary Geological History In the Porirua Areamentioning

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Quaternary deposits in the Porirua Area, New Zealand

Webby

1964

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

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Quaternary deposits in nine sections in the Porirua area are correlated by means of red-weathering horizons, radiocarbon dates, altitude above sea level, lithologies, and erosion intervals.The red weathering of superficial deposits and greywacke-argillite bedrock is considered to have taken place in the Quaternary in a climate warmer than the present, and probably in three distinct episodes-a lengthy warm, humid period, followed later by two shorter warm, humid periods. Preceding the periods of red weathering there was at least one intense periglacial episode, indicated· by red-stained solifluction deposits. The earlier period of red weathering possibly occurred during the Last Interglacial, more than 45,000 years ago, at a time when sea level stood some 60 ft above the present. During one of the later red-weathering phases sea level probably stood at 25 ft above the present. This latter period of warm, humid conditions was followed by a cooling 37,500 years ago, by warm, wet conditions about 25,000 years ago, and then by a period of periglaciation from 23,000 to 20,000 years ago.Before the Last Interglacial, there seems to have been a period of intense tectonic activity, but later earth movements have been spasmodic and on a small scale.

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Glacial Chronology of the New Zealand Pleistocene

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Terraces of the Hurunui River, New Zealand

Terraces of the Hurunui River, New Zealand

A contribution to the geology of the Mount Tongariro massif, North Island, New Zealand

Quaternary deposits in the Porirua Area, New Zealand

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