hydrothermal systems, a vital prerequisite for modelling and understanding their behaviour
and evolution. Whakaari/White Island volcano (an active stratovolcano at the north-eastern
end of the Taupo Volcanic Zone of New Zealand) hosts a highly reactive hydrothermal
system and represents an ideal natural laboratory to undertake such a study. We first gained
an appreciation of the different lithologies at Whakaari and (where possible) their lateral and …