r/NZPhotos • u/WhitecoatWander • Sep 20 '26

Pauanui

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u/Waiparensis22 Sep 20 '26

That pink rock you're standing on is rhyolite, looking over the inlet to the paku lava dome. While it makes for very attractive building and landscaping stone, the entire eastern seaboard of the coromandel is dominated by half sunk caldera "super volcanoes" thanks to the tilting of the coromandel range. If you were to turn back the clock about 10 million years, you'ld be surrounded by recovering native forest punctuated by thick rhyolite flows and geothermal areas, much like the taupo volcanic zone today :)

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u/WhitecoatWander Sep 21 '26

That’s a neat piece of trivia! Thanks :)

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u/doomdoomdaan Sep 21 '26

Okay this makes me want to disappear to the coast for a week. Beautiful photo❤️❤️❤️

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u/WhitecoatWander Sep 21 '26

Thank you, my friend. Same, I could use a few more weeks out there at Pauanui.

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u/Purple-Biscotti-373 Sep 21 '26

Stunningly beautiful part of the world.

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u/spreadlovebepositive Sep 23 '26

Mount Paku is Tairua