Lowe, David J.2011-04-102011-04-101988Lowe, D.J. (1988). Stratigraphy, age, composition, and correlation of late Quaternary tephras interbedded with organic sediments in Waikato lakes, North Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 31(2), 125-165.https://hdl.handle.net/10289/5262Cores from 14 peaty lakes in the central Waikato region, northern North Island, contain a sequence of 41 well-preserved, mainly macroscopic, occasionally bedded, ash and lapilli layers ranging in thickness from c. 2 to 110 mm and interbedded with fine-grained organic lake sediment. The layers, whose field and compositional properties are described in detail, are distal airfall tephras that were erupted between c. 17000 and c. 1800 ¹⁴C years ago from six rhyolitic and andesitic volcanic centres located c. 70-200 km from the Waikato sites: Taupo (5 tephras), Okataina (7), Maroa (1) (rhyolitic); Mayor Island (2) (peralkaline); Tongariro (11), and Egmont (15) (andesitic).application/pdfenThis article has been published in the journal: New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. © Crown copyright 1988. Used with permission.stratigraphylate QuaternarytephrostratigraphytephrochronologycorrelationcompositionC-14Absolute ageIsopach mapsNorth IslandVolcanoesWaikatolakespaleolimnology“Tirau Ash”“Mairoa Ash”Journal Article10.1080/00288306.1988.10417765