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Hannah Rice and Isabella Young’s Home Page ** Orakei **** Basin ** Today you are going to learn about a basin. However this is not a basin in which you wash your hands. You are going to learn about Orakei Basin. Orakei Basin is actually a volcano crater called a maar. A maar is a shallow flat bottomed crater caused by phreatomagmatic eruption. Although Orakei Basin is a volcano crater it is filled with water. Orakei Basin is located in Orakei. All pictures(with permission) from: http://week60.aotearoacam.com/ A Dry Joke What basin can you Water Ski in? Orakei Basin

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