Colin J. N. Wilson

TL;DR: The history of the Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ) can be divided into two categories: the old TVZ from 2.0 Ma to 0.34 Ma and the young TVZ between 0.9 and 0.6 Ma as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the vesicularity of juvenile clasts in pyroclastic deposits is measured for the 16-32 mm size fraction by water immersion techniques and converted to vesicleities using measured dense-rock equivalent densities.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model of incremental incremental zoning was proposed, where numerous batches of crystal-poor melt were released from a mush zone (many kilometers thick) that floored the accumulating rhyolitic melt-rich body.

TL;DR: The model-age spectra, coupled with zircon-dissolution modelling, highlight contrasts between short-term silicic magma generation at Taupo, by bulk remobilization of crystal mush and assimilation of metasediment and/or silicics plutonic basement rocks, and the longer-term processes of fractionation from crustally contaminated mafic melts as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The central Taupo Volcanic Zone in New Zealand is a region of intense Quaternary silicic volcanism accompanying rapid extension of continental crust as discussed by the authors, and at least 34 caldera-forming ignimbrite eruptions have produced a complex sequence of relatively short-lived, nested, and/or overlapping volcanic centers over 1.6 m.y.