Author's Notes
During my early childhood I became fascinated and enthralled
by the native forest, streams, lakes, and especially the thermal activity I saw
during a number of day trips to Rotorua made with my parents from our home near
Tauranga. I was also intrigued by snippets of information about the Tarawera
eruption. These experiences and stories triggered a continuing interest in the
New Zealand thermal region, and in recent years not only has my professional
interest as a physicist become focussed on the natural behaviour of geothermal
systems but also, with many other people, I have become deeply involved in
efforts to ensure that a representative selection of New Zealand's unique and
outstanding geothermal features are preserved. Tarawera has its origins in my
childhood fascination; it is built on nearly forty years' systematic collecting
of relevant historical information; and I would like to believe that my
scientific training has enhanced the necessary (but brief) consideration given
within the book to geological and physical processes involved in the central
events.
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