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Tourists walk across the Whakaari/White Island crater floor in August 2005. The crater wall behind them is composed of lavas, breccias, and tuff deposits. Photo by Janine Krippner, 2005.

Tourists walk across the Whakaari/White Island crater floor in August 2005. The crater wall behind them is composed of lavas, breccias, and tuff deposits.

Photo by Janine Krippner, 2005.

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Keywords: crater | stratigraphy


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