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    The Lost Forest of the Ashley River, Canterbury, New Zealand

    by Mike Pole March 21, 2017
    by Mike Pole March 21, 2017

    A gem in the heart of Christchurch is Riccarton Bush (sometimes called Deans Bush). It’s a patch of original kahikatea forest, just a …

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    Phyllocladus fossils from the Miocene of New Zealand, and Cretaceous Protophyllocladus

    by Mike Pole March 4, 2017
    by Mike Pole March 4, 2017

    A rare plant fossil in the Miocene Manuherikia Group of New Zealand, is Phyllocladus (the Celery Pine). This is a strange conifer which, instead …

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    Miocene Rain and Fire Forests of Bannockburn

    by Mike Pole December 18, 2016
    by Mike Pole December 18, 2016

    Canungra is the perfect place to stop for a snack on the drive up to O’Reilly’s/Lamington National Park in southeastern Queensland. On …

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    New Zealand’s Rata and Pohutakawa – riders of the Miocene storms?

    by Mike Pole April 22, 2016
    by Mike Pole April 22, 2016

    There is a Maori legend than when one of their ancestral canoes (the Te Arawa) approached New Zealand after traveling from its …

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    Miocene Nothofagus in New Zealand’s Manuherikia Group

    by Mike Pole March 26, 2016
    by Mike Pole March 26, 2016

    Perhaps the most surprising thing about Nothofagus leaf fossils in New Zealand is – not finding them. Nothofagus is another name for the southern …

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    Interdistributary drifters – a Miocene bay in New Zealand

    by Mike Pole March 21, 2016
    by Mike Pole March 21, 2016

    One of the more evocative Miocene fossils you might pick up near Bannockburn, New Zealand, are she-oak ‘cones’ (see the featured image). …

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    Blue Lake, St Bathans – the most biodiverse Miocene fossil plant locality

    by Mike Pole March 13, 2016
    by Mike Pole March 13, 2016

    The biodiversity of Blue Lake, at St Bathans, New Zealand, is precisely zero. It is an artificial lake partly filling a hole …

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    Giant Pea Pod fossils in New Zealand’s Miocene

    by Mike Pole March 5, 2016
    by Mike Pole March 5, 2016

    Pea pod fossils in New Zealand were first found by Aline Holden, a pioneer of New Zealand plant fossil research. She found …

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    Hoop Pine fossils – dry rainforest in New Zealand’s Miocene

    by Mike Pole February 27, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 27, 2016

    In a little patch of shale, continually flaking onto the road near Bannockburn (central South Island, New Zealand), there are the unmistakable fossils …

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    Five Degrees of Global Warming – The Leaf Fossils of Kakahu, New Zealand

    by Mike Pole November 27, 2015
    by Mike Pole November 27, 2015

    Sometime 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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