THERMAL ACTIVITY.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1401, 8 September 1923, Page 5

THERMAL ACTIVITY.

GEYSERS LESS ACTIVE. WELLINGTON, Friday. Professor Speight, Professor of Geology and Curator of the Canterbury Museum, has returned from the Science Congress in Australia, and in an interview discusses the possibility of Nature renewing the pink and white terraces destroyed or buried in the Tarawera eruption. At one or two places, he remarked, terrace building is unquestionably proceeding on a small scale, and with any revival of thermal activity, of which there are some slight indications at present, the terraces, such as those which have now disappeared, may be created on a smaller scale. Another phenomenon geologically had also manifested itself in New Zealand —its famous geysers were on the w'hole declining in activity, and one of the most famous of geysers, which used to toss a column of water to a height of 2000 feet, had stopped flowing for some years. Other geysers were not so active as they used to be. Volcanic action, said Professor Speight, must reach a maximum and then decline. In all probability that is what has happened, or is happening, in New Zealand to-day.