Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Tarawera rift crater

Tarawera rift crater

Original - In 1886, Mount Tarawera split open along its length in New Zealand's largest historic eruption. Here the resulting rift is about 500 m (1600 ft) wide.

Reason

Helps show not only the size of Tarawera's 1886 eruption, but also the type of rock produced. The scoria comes in a beautiful range of colours, both in the fissure walls and on the crater floor. Revegetation is proceeding slowly due to the subalpine climate and unstable ground.

Articles in which this image appears

Mount Tarawera, Taupo Volcanic Zone

Creator

Avenue

• Support as nominator --Avenue (talk) 15:16, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support per nominator.--Mbz1 (talk) 23:08, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support I wonder if you might have been better up on one of the ridges, but then you'd loose foreground information about the rock type. Noodle snacks (talk) 03:47, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
• Support Rare view of craterWai Hong (talk) 08:32, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
• Support - Peripitus (Talk) 05:16, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose: I'm sorry, I think the quality is too poor. It's not sharp overall, and particularly blurry on the right side. Maedin\^talk 18:35, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
• Oppose per Maedin. Makeemlighter (talk) 20:59, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Promoted File:Inside the Tarawera rift.jpg --Papa Lima Whiskey (talk) 20:01, 11 March 2010 (UTC)