This series brings together posts exploring the Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay, southermost New Zealand – from the in-place stumps of …
Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
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Autobiography & Travel
Eating out in Ukraine – is there a shortage of food?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleLana Del Rey’s ‘Summertime Sadness’ is filling the air of the restaurant in Odesa…. “Done my hair up real big, beauty queen …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Three Kinds of Volcanic Ash around the Jurassic Fossil Forests of Curio Bay
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay appear to have been overwhelmed by water-lain material, not by air-fall volcanic ash. But the …
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Autobiography & Travel
Pippi Longstockings, and a Destroyed School in Kharkiv, Ukraine
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn a pile of rubble in the destroyed Gymnasium No. 47 in Kharkiv (Харьковская гимназия № 47), Ukraine, I picked up a …
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This year I headed down to the Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay, in one of the worst stretches of spring weather …
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In my Fifth Form year at Dunstan High School, Alexandra, my Biology Teacher was Peter Child. He retired shortly afterwards, and as …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Bioturbation near the Jurassic Fossil Forests at Curio Bay
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe ‘God’ of trace fossils, Adolf ‘Dolf’ Seilacher, once visited our Geology Department, when I was an undergrad. My Prof, Doug Campbell, …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Beauprea – the last truly Gondwanan plant in New Zealand?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThirty years ago (Pole, 1994), I suggested all of New Zealand’s current flora may have arrived over the sea, by long-distance dispersal. …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
The Jurassic Fossil Forests at Curio Bay, New Zealand, and their connection to two remarkable English scientists
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay, southern New Zealand, have been known for at least a hundred and fifty years. They …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
Are the consequences of a fire in Tasmania 3,600 years ago, still present?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleSitting a little above the more famous lake of Cradle Mountain National Park , Tasmamia – Dove Lake, is Wombat Pool. Some …
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