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Mike Pole

From New Zealand. Traveling the weyward path trying to figure out how the world works. I study fossil plants, past climates, travel, walk, hike, read, take photos, struggle with computer graphics and plant trees.

  • Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest

    Cladophlebis – New Zealand’s Mesozoic Weed

    by Mike Pole June 22, 2014
    by Mike Pole June 22, 2014

    The fern Cladophlebis is probably the single-most common plant fossil in the New Zealand Jurassic. It’s present in virtually every plant fossil …

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  • ClimateNew Zealand Geology

    Is New Zealand in the Anthropocene?

    by Mike Pole June 19, 2014
    by Mike Pole June 19, 2014

    Has New Zealand recently entered an entirely new period of time? You may have caught up with the proposal that the world …

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  • ClimateNew Zealand Geology

    Is New Zealand in the Anthropocene?

    by Mike Pole June 19, 2014
    by Mike Pole June 19, 2014

    Has New Zealand recently entered an entirely new period of time? You may have caught up with the proposal that the world …

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  • Forestsre-wilding/walking

    Matai- vanquished giant of New Zealand’s dry forests?

    by Mike Pole June 12, 2014
    by Mike Pole June 12, 2014

    I’ve long found New Zealand’s black pine, the matai (Prumnopitys taxifolia) to be a special tree. From a dishevelled juvenile, It can …

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    Black Sea rainforest? Gorgeous, green, Georgistan

    by Mike Pole May 26, 2014
    by Mike Pole May 26, 2014

    Rainforest in Georgia? (as in Georgistan, Black Sea, by the way, not as in ‘Good-Old-Boys’). I saw it marked on a Wikipedia map and …

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  • ForestsTravel

    Canary Islands – ‘Last’ Rainforest in Europe (?)

    by Mike Pole May 18, 2014
    by Mike Pole May 18, 2014

    The fossils are clear – just a few million years ago Europe was covered in broad-leaved, evergreen forest. There were palm trees …

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    The Last Deep Dark Primeval Forest in Europe?

    by Mike Pole May 13, 2014
    by Mike Pole May 13, 2014

    In Poland there are any number of subjects that might make good postcards, Polish girls perhaps. But decaying logs?  In the far …

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    Discovering the ‘Bridge of Stone’ – the ancient route over the Kawarau River, New Zealand

    by Mike Pole May 7, 2014
    by Mike Pole May 7, 2014

    Part way along the Kawarau River between Cromwell and Queenstown (Central Otago, New Zealand) is a feature known to Maori as ‘Whatatorere’ (Kaumatua …

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    Mongolia – The Lost Forests of the Gobi

    by Mike Pole May 4, 2014
    by Mike Pole May 4, 2014

    When an entire landscape loses its forests, it can be so complete that most of us would have no comprehension of what …

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    Grumbling about Graywacke

    by Mike Pole May 2, 2014
    by Mike Pole May 2, 2014

    When I was growing up in Central Otago (New Zealand) graywacke was a bane of my life, and certainly of my Dad’s …

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    • Curio Bay – New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest
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    • New Zealand plant fossils
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    • Cheap Eats Nanjing
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