Mount Egmont, or Taranaki

Petrogenesis of High-K Arc Magmas: Evidence from Egmont Volcano, North Island, New Zealand

Egmont Volcano (Mt Taranaki) is located 140 km west of the INTRODUCTION Taupo Volcanic Zone (TVZ), the principal locus of volcanic activity Egmont Volcano is a 2518 m high stratovolcano (Mt in the North Island of New Zealand, and is one of four closely Taranaki) resting on an extensive ring plain of volcanic associated Quaternary andesitic volcanoes in Taranaki province. debris in Taranaki prov...

Natural Pohutukawa in Taranaki

Early Maori settlement impacts in northern coastal Taranaki, New Zealand

Pollen and charcoal analyses of sediments from northern coastal Taranaki, New Zealand, show that Maori settlement impacts on the vegetation began with the burning of tall coastal forest in the mid-17th century. Forest was replaced with a fern-shrubland, and small wetlands expanded with changing hydrological conditions. This forest clearance was much later than in most regions of the country, wh...

Dental caries in Taranaki adolescents: a cohort study.

OBJECTIVE To document changes in disease experience among Taranaki adolescents in order to enhance understanding of the natural history of dental caries in a key developmental period. METHOD A random sample of 430 adolescents first examined in 2003 at age 13 were re-examined at age 16, when 255 (59.3%) took part. Dental caries status (in the permanent dentition) was recorded at each age by a ...

Stem cell tensions mount

The US has been a major battle-ground amongst legislators coming to grips with the issue of embryonic stem cell research but the issue is reaching new heights in Italy. Nigel Williams reports.