Roding River

The Roding River is a river of the Tasman Region of New Zealand's South Island. It flows generally southwest from its sources in the hills above the city of Nelson, reaching the Wairoa River five kilometres south of Richmond. The rock type Rodingite is named after the Roding River.[1] The catchment has numours mine sites and shafts which attempted to make the copper and chromite deposites in the Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt profertable in the late 19th century.

Roding River
Location
CountryNew Zealand
Physical characteristics
Mouth 
  location
Wairoa River
Length23 km (14 mi)

See also

References

  1. Johnston, M. R. (2007). "Nineteenth-century observations of the Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt, Nelson, New Zealand and trans-Tasman correlations,". Geological Society, London, Special Publications. 287: 375–387. Bibcode:2007GSLSP.287..375J. doi:10.1144/sp287.27.

Sources

"Place name detail: Roding River". New Zealand Gazetteer. Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 12 July 2009.


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