Maungataketake

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A kauri log (100s of thousands of years old) erodes from the peat that lies beneath layers of volcanic tuff from Maungataketake volcano, at the Ihumatao fossil forest.

Maungataketake (also Ellett's Mount,) is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland Volcanic Field. It had a 76 m high scoria cone, beside a 100 m wide crater, before they were quarried away. It was the site of a pā. Layers of volcanic tuff and ash from Maungataketake overlay the fallen trunks of the nearby Ihumatao fossil forest.

References

• City of Volcanoes: A geology of Auckland - Searle, Ernest J.; revised by Mayhill, R.D.; Longman Paul, 1981. First published 1964. ISBN 0-582-71784-1.
• Volcanoes of Auckland: The Essential Guide - Hayward, B.W., Murdoch, G., Maitland, G.; Auckland University Press, 2011.

External links

• 1937 photo of Maungataketake showing Maori terracing.
• 1899 photo of Maungataketake before quarrying (on page 29).
• Aerial view of Ellett's Mount before quarrying
• Photographs of Maungataketake held in Auckland Libraries' heritage collections.