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November 2015

New Zealand Geology New Zealand paleobotany New Zealand plant fossils
Five Degrees of Global Warming – The Leaf Fossils of Kakahu, New Zealand

by Mike Pole November 27, 2015

by Mike Pole November 27, 2015

Sometime in the 1980s my Prof, ‘JDC’ (Doug Campbell of the Otago University), showed me a box of spectacular leaf fossils that …

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Travel
Would you like a beer? – Guests of the Kalimantan Police

by Mike Pole November 22, 2015

by Mike Pole November 22, 2015

Roni is a Batak. This is a christian tribe that lives in the Lake Toba area of the otherwise Muslim Sumatra. The Bataks …

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Geology Travel
Chromite and Pine Forests – the closest I’ll ever get to the Old Syria

by Mike Pole November 18, 2015

by Mike Pole November 18, 2015

On March 21, 2011 I was sent to do a job in the far south-east of Turkey. Me and Erol, my indispensable …

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