Curio Bay – New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest

This year I headed down to the Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay, in one of the worst stretches of spring weather …

The ‘God’ of trace fossils, Adolf ‘Dolf’ Seilacher, once visited our Geology Department, when I was an undergrad. My Prof, Doug Campbell, …

The Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay, southern New Zealand, have been known for at least a hundred and fifty years. They …

Soils “lie at the interface between earth, air, water, and life” (Needelman, 2013). They are constantly evolving in response to what is …

A hollow tree stump at the Jurassic fossil forest of Curio Bay, New Zealand. The inside of the stump (the wood is …

How do you figure out how much carbon dioxide was in the atmosphere millions of years ago? In the Jurassic, the fossil …

In the Jurassic you could have walked from what is now the fossil forest at Curio Bay in southernmost New Zealand (see …

The Jurassic fossil forest of Curio Bay today lies almost at the southern tip of New Zealand’s South Island. In the Jurassic, …

As you pull up in the car park above the fossil forest at Curio Bay (Pole 1999, 2001, 2004, 2009), there is …

At Curio Bay near the southernmost point of New Zealand’’s South Island, you can walk around the remains of a Jurassic fossil …