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    New Zealand’s Doggerland

    by Mike Pole December 27, 2019
    by Mike Pole December 27, 2019

    Do we have a submerged ‘Doggerland‘ in New Zealand? In 1950 a boat, the HMNZS ‘Lachlan’ dredged a sample of “lignite” from …

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    Academic Misconduct at Otago University – what Misconduct?

    by Mike Pole November 24, 2018
    by Mike Pole November 24, 2018

    What happens when you make the serious charge of Academic Misconduct at the University of Otago? I decided to find out. In …

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    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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    A Glimpse in to the Rise of the Mongolian Gobi Altai

    by Mike Pole September 18, 2014
    by Mike Pole September 18, 2014

    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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    Mixed-up with Mongolian Migmatite

    by Mike Pole September 12, 2014
    by Mike Pole September 12, 2014

    When I was a novice geology student, the world appeared kind of simple. Faced with a rock, I could ask myself the most …

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    Really Old Mongolian Limestone

    by Mike Pole August 29, 2014
    by Mike Pole August 29, 2014

    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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    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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    The Origin of New Zealand in Deep-Time

    by Mike Pole April 22, 2014
    by Mike Pole April 22, 2014

    Anyone who knows anything about New Zealand geology will know that it was once ‘part of Gondwana’. This is true, but how …

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