The Wandering River
John McCraw · 2011
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About the book
The Waikato River, the longest in New Zealand, flows through the Hamilton Basin and is largely responsible its wide variety of landforms. This Guidebook explains in simple language how the Hamilton Basin was formed and how the river, which broke into the Basin about 22,000 years ago, built a series of alluvial fans that partly buried the existing hill and valley landscape of the Basin floor. Towards the end of the fan building the river adopted a number of different routes across the basin and many of these old courses are preserved. These features, together with others such as the huge peat bogs, the deep gullies, the scores of lakes, and the effect of the Taupo eruption are described and illustrated. A series of detailed field trips, each taking about two hours by car, will allow those interested to see examples of the features dealt with in the text.
Book details
- Year
- 2011
- Language
- English
- Series
- Geoscience Society of New Zealand guidebook -- no. 16
- Publisher
- Geoscience Society of New Zealand
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 88
- ISBN
- 9781877480126
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