Mount Titiraupenga
Geography
The mountain is covered in native forest and is in the southern Waikato region.
Geology
Mount Titiraupenga has a prominence above the surrounding countryside of about 350 m (1,150 ft) and a diameter of about 3.5 km (2.2 mi). It is to the north east of a larger stratovolcano, Mount Pureora, and both are located to the south of the extinct Mangakino caldera on a basement of Waipapa composite terrane. The basaltic andesite lavas are made up of plagioclase, clinopyroxene and orthopyroxene, with rare olivine and hornblende phenocrysts with an age of 1.89 ± 0.02 Ma.
Access
The nearest main roads are State Highway 30 and State Highway 32. There is road access to a track to the summit, which also by a fair walk onwards gives access to the summit of Mount Pureora.
See also
References
- ^ "NZTopoMap:Titiraupenga".
- ^ Pittari, Adrian; Prentice, Marlena L.; McLeod, Oliver E.; Zadeh, Elham Yousef; Kamp, Peter J. J.; Danišík, Martin; Vincent, Kirsty A. (2021). "Inception of the modern North Island (New Zealand) volcanic setting: spatio-temporal patterns of volcanism between 3.0 and 0.9 Ma" (PDF). New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 64 (2–3): 250–272. doi:10.1080/00288306.2021.1915343.
- ^ "Walks in the Pureora Forest". Visit Ruapehu. Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ "Map of YMCA camp Park Lee". Retrieved 23 November 2022.
- ^ "Pureora Forest Park". newzealand.com. New Zealand Tourism Board. Retrieved 23 November 2022.