Talk:Auckland volcanic field

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[edit] Discussion

discussion here please before surgery moza 12:45, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, I had thought my edit summary was clear enough. In hindsight, it would have been better to to explain my reasons for the deletions more fully here. I removed two external links, Map of Mangere Mountain and Map of Mount Eden, and an "Internal links" section listing links to Mount Eden and Mangere Mountain, all recently added by Mozasaur.

Since Mount Eden and Mangere Mountain are part of the Auckland Volcanic Field category, and the full category is only a click away, I saw no point in listing just two of the category members here. However I would support adding a full list of the volcanoes in the field, including those we don't have articles for yet, because this adds some information beyond what the category provides.

The maps were of the Mt Eden and Mangere suburbs, not of the corresponding volcanoes, so the title of at least the Mangere map was misleading. And while part of Mt Eden (the volcano) was shown in the upper right corner of the Mt Eden map, the Mangere map did not show Mangere Mountain at all. So even if we retitled these links, I didn't feel they would be relevant to this article. (They might be useful additions to the articles for those suburbs, though.) -- Avenue 23:46, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I've now added a list of volcanoes in the field. -- Avenue 15:47, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Likelihood of new eruptions

I heard it bandied about on the radio and in the breakroom that the estimated likelihood for another eruption in the field is about 1 in 500-1000 years. Anyone got a cite for that? MadMaxDog 05:50, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

This is not exactly an estimate, but the Contingency Plan for the Auckland Volcanic Field says that "the return period between past events has ranged from hundreds to thousands of years." (page 4) -- Avenue 08:30, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Deletion of map requested

Someone has requested that the map at the top of this article be deleted. If you have an opinion on this, please comment here in the next 7 days. -- Avenue 01:58, 17 September 2007 (UTC)