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Aranga Quarry (Stone's Quarry; Hood Road Quarry), Aranga, Kaipara, Northland, North Island, New Zealand

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Aranga quarry

Aranga Quarry (Stone's Quarry; Hood Road Quarry), Aranga, Kaipara, Northland, North Island, New Zealand

Photo of Aranga quarry in 1996.
 © Judy RowePhoto ID: 187251    View Count: 52

Aranga quarry

Aranga Quarry (Stone's Quarry; Hood Road Quarry), Aranga, Kaipara, Northland, North Island, New Zealand

View of Aranga quarry in 1996.
 © Judy RowePhoto ID: 187252    View Count: 85

Aranga quarry 2007

Aranga Quarry (Stone's Quarry; Hood Road Quarry), Aranga, Kaipara, Northland, North Island, New Zealand

View of Aranga quarry taken in September 2007 by Mathew Singleton.
 © Mathew SingletonPhoto ID: 198327    View Count: 66

Contact zone

Aranga Quarry (Stone's Quarry; Hood Road Quarry), Aranga, Kaipara, Northland, North Island, New Zealand

Contact between new basalt flow and baked tuff. Detail shows low level brecciation on the tuff surface and vughs in the base of the basalt flow with zeolite deposition (detail box size is ~1m x 1m).
Photo ID: 261185    View Count: 75

In the quarry

Aranga Quarry (Stone's Quarry; Hood Road Quarry), Aranga, Kaipara, Northland, North Island, New Zealand

Aranga quarry is sited in a single flow of an augite-olivine basalt which has been intruded by thin (less than 2 metre wide) feeder dikes of basalt. The rock which is bright red in colour has been highly oxidised. Photo taken by Mathew Singleton in September 2007.
 © Mathew SingletonPhoto ID: 198344    View Count: 64

Overview, Oct 2009

Aranga Quarry (Stone's Quarry; Hood Road Quarry), Aranga, Kaipara, Northland, North Island, New Zealand

Arrow shows approx position of indurated tuff hosting cavansite
Photo ID: 261171    View Count: 26

Well known New Zealand locality

Aranga Quarry (Stone's Quarry; Hood Road Quarry), Aranga, Kaipara, Northland, North Island, New Zealand

Aranga Quarry has produced fine cabinet size! Zeolite specimens for some 30 years,(Mat Singleton, collector) these photo's were taken by Carole Davies during our visit in 2002
Photo ID: 126178    View Count: 176
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