Pink Terrace sample sought
PA Wellington Scientists want to recreate the famous Pink Terraces destroyed 100 years ago in the the Tarawera eruption. To do that they need a tiny sample of rock from the .original terraces to ft
find out what made them pink. Dr Gordon Leary, director of the Chemistry Division of the D.SJ.R., is keen to recreate the pink terraces as a tourist attraction. He appealed to the public for help in tracing any remnaqts of
the terraces. “There must be a piece of the pink terraces sitting on someone’s mantelpiece,” he said. The pink and white terraces were billed as the eighth wonder of the world.-* q
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Press, 24 January 1986, Page 4
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111Pink Terrace sample sought Press, 24 January 1986, Page 4
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