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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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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On March 21, 2011 Â I was sent to do a job in the far south-east of Turkey. Â Me and Erol, my indispensable …
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Alexandra lies at the junction of the Clutha and Manuherikia Rivers. The usual translation of the Maori word ‘Manuherikia’ is that it means …
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It is a macabre thought that in these days of GIS and databases, someone could probably come up with a map of …
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A few years ago I used to teach American classes that came to the University of Queensland. One evening my Stanford class …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
Globalisation in the Jurassic – the fossil fern Coniopteris in New Zealand
One of the plant fossils that turns up in New Zealand’s Jurassic rocks is a delicate-looking fern frond called Coniopteris (Arber, 1917; …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
Palissya – mysterious cone of New Zealand’s Jurassic forests
In the early 1980s when I was working on the Jurassic fossil forest of Curio Bay, near the bottom end of New Zealand’s …
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New Zealand school kids, at least when I was one, were taught to draw the Polynesian triangle. It has Hawaii at the …
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What a difference nearly thirty years makes. In 1986 the Prof of Geology at Otago University showed me some recently collected plant …