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    When New Zealand was a Burning Land

    by Mike Pole January 16, 2020
    by Mike Pole January 16, 2020

    Broken River is a Hell of a place to get to. From Christchurch you need to head inland, driving along the road …

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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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    New Zealand’s first fossil horsetails in millions of years

    by Mike Pole July 29, 2017
    by Mike Pole July 29, 2017

    With the precious fossils laid out carefully on a sun-hat held in my hands, I took a confident stride from one boulder …

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    The Amazing Miocene Fossil Leaf Pack of Mata Creek, New Zealand

    by Mike Pole December 28, 2016
    by Mike Pole December 28, 2016

    I was crouched in a long boat somewhere up a rainforest-swathed river in Kalimatan, Borneo, when I saw it – a ‘living’ …

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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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    Miocene Swamp Forests of St Bathans, New Zealand

    by Mike Pole October 17, 2016
    by Mike Pole October 17, 2016

    The white sands and muds surrounding Blue and ‘Grey’ Lakes at St Bathans were laid down in a braided river (Manuherikia Group; …

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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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