Bleached moa bones projected out from the steep bank of the nearly dry gully. This was exciting, as there were clearly several …
New Zealand Geology
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New Zealand Geology
New Zealand’s Hawks Crag Breccia – prelude to the drift from Gondwana
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe New Zealand road network has some seriously quirky idiosyncrasies – little things we locals take for granted, but can cause some …
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Five Degrees of Global Warming – The Leaf Fossils of Kakahu, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleSometime 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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New Zealand Geology
The Giant ‘Lake Manuherikia’ – an extinct lake from the New Zealand Miocene
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleAlexandra 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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New Zealand Geology
The Highlands Motorsport Park ‘Jurassic Forest Safari’
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleGrowing up in Alexandra it inconceivable that Cromwell might somehow overtake Alex. Alexandra was The Hub. Cromwell was the little place you …
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New Zealand Geology
Beetroot with your Peanut Butter and Marmite? The basic geological structure of New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleNew 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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New Zealand Geology
The Marshall Paraconformity – a 30 year geological debate in New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleCut back to the late 1970s – I was a schoolboy and had found my way into the Burnside Marl Pit, Dunedin …
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