New Zealand's Wild Geology

#newzealand #geology #volcanoes
New Zealand has a fascinating geological history. In this video we start at the birth of New Zealand and Zealandia, and work our way up to modern day New Zealand. We will cover when and how the alps formed, before exploring some unique geological oddities.
Pink & White Terraces:
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[@PaulG.x]

We must thank our neighbour Australia and their plate for our continued (partially) dry existence.

[@leandabee]

I'm off to NZ in May, and cannot wait 😃. I've always wanted to see a glacier up close and personal 💖💖🇦🇺

[@sethg4584]

I hope you enjoy our beautiful country! The glaciers are shrinking every day, I better go see em before they're gone.

[@jbrassic5434]

You'll be lucky to get there, sadly. Heavy weather has isolated glacier country, roads washed out.

[@troydonclarke7863]

Just to be honest here you don’t get close unless you get a helicopter

[@chryslerjune]

Won't be possible, was there couple of weeks ago and it was closed off due to weather making the ice breaking more frequently, I was told the same story 5 years ago. It's been like that for a long time

[@leandabee]

@@sethg4584 thank you 😀. I look forward to seeing your beautiful Country. I'm told it's a little like my state Tasmania. In Tassie we have a Queenstown and a Glenorchy 👍😊

[@fraserthomson5766]

Great info, I believe the locals have recently found the pink & white terraces exact location, there's a video on YT I believe. Under the lake now of course but finally located.

[@Jos-scifiwriter]

Pink terraces were uncovered a couple of years ago 👍

[@phforNZ]

Not bad pronunciations, especially for an Aussie! Jarring to hear Taupo done correctly, in your accent haha.

[@kaymish6178]

There were some shockers in there, but on the whole a good job on pronunciation.

[@jasonlittle8146]

Great video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and passion for geology! Please keep up the awesome work!

[@CoolCoyote]

and I believe that my countries Pacific ocean side once met up with California they have black sands and white sands, we have black sand ,white sands and pink sands they have the purply pink

[@dobbygfred8452]

Awesome information. Have recommended you channel to others at our Uni.

[@claudegrayson7039]

as a teenager anyone could walk down ito the Mt tarawera crater and if you stamped your foot it sounded hollow..I thought recently that they had located the position of the terraces and found they hadnt been completly destroyed,just buried

[@mitchellpowell4238]

can you please make a video on the mt Ruapehu lahar and the Auckland volcanic field.

[@kaymish6178]

My Grandma only survived that because she was late to the train station and missed her train. She was supposed to be on the one that went off the bridge that got hit by the lahar.

[@project-fiat5097]

A little disappointed, video jumps around a lot covering the same thing... didn't really cover the widely diverse biomes within nz and how that's reflected in the geology

[@outthereindustries7413]

Been working up on the Kaimanawa Mountain, Central North Island Alpine High Country, east of the TVZ. Uplifted sedimentary rock, incredible place. Will put up more videos in the future.

[@PaulG.x]

The Taihape to Napier road is one of my favourite motorcycling roads. Amazing landscapes. A couple of years ago I went through it and one of the bridges near Taihape was being repaired and the road was closed to general traffic. I called a contact number on the notification sign and was told to talk to the guys on the bridge and they'll let me across.

[@dylansmith5379]

Wow It's Impressive That New Zealand Is a Pair of Two Islands

[@uapnz0698]

Te Wai Ponamu (southisland) Te Ika a Maui. ( North island) ❤😊

[@sixthsenseamelia4695]

New Zealand is 500+ islands.

[@xyreniaofcthrayn1195]

False three major islands and many minor islands. the major islands are the "creatively" named north, south and stuart islands in english, in te reo that would be te ika a maui: the fish of maui for the north island for the south that would te waka a maui: the waka (a boat usually a multi man canoe) of maui and te punga a maui or the anchor hook/ anchor stone of maui though it depends on which tribe you speak to.

[@sixthsenseamelia4695]

KiaOra Ozgeo. South Island's vulcanism preceeded the North Island. (Dunedin, Christchurch, Akaroa & Chatham Islands) A further discussion on this topic would be appreciated, hardly anyone covers it.

[@elgringo7787]

Your lost pink cliffs or falls, meh, of NZ best vid yet xx

[@karamia1392]

What a marvellous video. NZ is amazing and you conveyed that. I’ve only been to the north island but I adored it and amazing geology.

[@Vesuviusisking]

Can you do Italy please

[@Undisclosedstreamer69]

Hey Oz geographics! I have done some extensive research on something that could be a good new video idea, I've been finding a hell of a lot of undiscovered impact craters in the Australian outback, could I share my findings with you?

[@kevinbyrne5037]

Was New Zealand larger at the time of the last ice age when sea levels were lower?

[@fishingfan1500]

You sound exactly like modest pelican!

[@boulevardsound5137]

yeah das wild bruh

[@travissyme6755]

🇦🇺 Mt Gravatt4122Australia 🇦🇺 hay brother Tnb here... did u know that there is a massive bio-mechanical-liveing-machine (FROG 🐸) Sitting there on the ocean floor just off the north island of New Zealand 🇳🇿.. it's massive brother & u showed it @ the 02:38sec mark.. u drew around it have a looks brother. The 2 legs on the Australia 🇦🇺 side r folded up.. & the other 2 .. the back leg go's right down under the north island & the front leg heads way way ways up's towards Hawaii ways.. I believe it's the frog 🐸 from the old aboriginal people's Dreamtime stories bro.. I can show u the serpent 🐍 as well cuz if u likes any-a-ways. God Bless 🙌 & I hope u believe my... Tnb from beautiful Mt gravatt Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺 4122

[@amandadonegan2137]

New Zealand to me is the Polar Opposite of ICELAND.... Same rift formation and volcanic/tectonic formations... Just at differing stages...

[@ILoveBluePeople]

Seems new Zealand is much further along, it'd be interesting to see the difference in elevation between the countries

[@Jos-scifiwriter]

Um no. Iceland is on a oceanic plate boundary that is rifting apart, new Zealand is continental landmass that is mostly underwater with only 10% exposed. Subduction is occurring in the northern and very southern part of the plate boundary in different directions, but the middle part is sliding past each other at the Alpine fault section of the plate boundary. Two completely different processes which aren't occuring in Iceland. Sorry 😬

[@olsim1730]

Pretty sure NZ is opposite Spain on the globe

[@sixthsenseamelia4695]

NZ and Iceland are like fraternal twins lol. The same but also different. They're like the reverse of each other.

[@sixthsenseamelia4695]

​@@olsim1730The Antipodes of NZ is Portugal.

[@justfellover]

Clickbait title. These cataclysmic changes are not new. They happened a long time ago. Maybe a better title would be New Understanding of Old Zealand Geology.

[@GiantsGraveGaming]

This is a joke, right?

[@justfellover]

@@GiantsGraveGaming Apparently not a good one.

[@DaleDix]

They're not new anymore. They should just dump the New and go with Zealand.

[@justfellover]

@@DaleDix That sounds a lot better than Zealand, Slightly Worn.

[@GiantsGraveGaming]

@justfellover ahahahah no mate, it's just I often read this kind of stuff but people are serious!

[@JesusAmen123]

Australia broke away from New Zealand get it right😂😂😂

[@quays99]

Why do the outlines of the continents zealandia,Australia, africa look the same? Why do the continents of south America and antarctica look the same? Why do the continents of nth America and Eurasia look the same?

[@shks4144]

Because the picture of maps of continents land mass is wrong most continents on the map are wrong 1st off I can assure you the continent Antarctica does not look like South America it shows a land mass shaped liked South America but in reality Antarctica land mass surrounds every continent on the global map Antarctica is a massive circle of ice and every continent you know of is within the perimeter of Antarctica Antarctica the sun doesn’t even set if you don’t believe me go watch a 5 day sun laps of Antarctica on utube you’ll be shocked I know I’ve been there

[@user-db4nt4io9e]

Peoplr think maoris were the first on new zealand but it was actually the guamanesian or Southern Thaiwanesian (the ones from thailand or their beginerrs the vietmamese

[@kevinansley7353]

I notice lots of bleating about pronunciation of maori names, how are you supposed to know . No doubt the moaners can speak all abo daialects.

[@dubstepXpower]

Half of these pronunciation nazis can't even speak english correctly 😂

[@infinitee1384]

So there is this thing on the internet that everyone has free access to called google. If you type a question into google, it will give you an answer. This means you can ask it how to properly pronounce any word in any language or dialect and it should give the pronunciation to you.

[@aaronsergeant5450]

Hahaha... So many Fallacies.. I couldn't watch more than two and half mins of this fictional based on somewhat truths mockyoumentry... Hi... From NZ..