Eucalyptus (aka ‘gum-tree’) is the quintessential Australian tree. There are about 700 species of them today (depending on who you ask), all of …
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New Zealand might be a relatively lucky position as regards global warming. We mostly have a moderate, ‘maritime’ climate. Not too hot, …
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New Zealand Geology
Beetroot with your Peanut Butter and Marmite? The basic geological structure of New Zealand
New Zealand must be one of the best places on the planet for geology. We are famous among tourists for having so …
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The Gobi is the great desert that extends along southern Mongolia and northern China. Its northern extent is marked by a series …
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When I was a novice geology student, the world appeared kind of simple. Faced with a rock, IÂ could ask myself the most …
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We set up ‘camp’ at the base of Mongolia’s ‘White Doors’ — a gap in a massive outcrop of vertically-tilted limestone. ‘Camp’ …
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Don’t get me wrong – Christian virtues (the teachings of JC) are admirable. I was brought-up going to ‘Sunday School’ and I …
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There was a time when I threatened myself to start teaching the ecology of Middle-earth. I helped take a couple of trips …
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Cut back to the late 1970s – I was a schoolboy and had found my way into the Burnside Marl Pit, Dunedin …
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I own a little patch of bush in the Haast, on the wet, West Coast of New Zealand. It was selectively logged …
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