This series brings together posts exploring the Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay, southermost New Zealand – from the in-place stumps of …
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Three Kinds of Volcanic Ash around the Jurassic Fossil Forests of Curio Bay
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay appear to have been overwhelmed by water-lain material, not by air-fall volcanic ash. But the …
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This year I headed down to the Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay, in one of the worst stretches of spring weather …
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Bioturbation near the Jurassic Fossil Forests at Curio Bay
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe ‘God’ of trace fossils, Adolf ‘Dolf’ Seilacher, once visited our Geology Department, when I was an undergrad. My Prof, Doug Campbell, …
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Beauprea – the last truly Gondwanan plant in New Zealand?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThirty years ago (Pole, 1994), I suggested all of New Zealand’s current flora may have arrived over the sea, by long-distance dispersal. …
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The Jurassic Fossil Forests at Curio Bay, New Zealand, and their connection to two remarkable English scientists
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay, southern New Zealand, have been known for at least a hundred and fifty years. They …
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The Jurassic fossil soils of Curio Bay, and Fortrose-Otara, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleSoils “lie at the interface between earth, air, water, and life” (Needelman, 2013). They are constantly evolving in response to what is …
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A hollow tree stump at the Jurassic fossil forest of Curio Bay, New Zealand. The inside of the stump (the wood is …
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How Much Carbon Dioxide was in the Atmosphere of New Zealand’s Jurassic Curio Bay Fossil Forest?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleHow do you figure out how much carbon dioxide was in the atmosphere millions of years ago? In the Jurassic, the fossil …
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Were there dinosaurs in New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest at Curio Bay?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn the Jurassic you could have walked from what is now the fossil forest at Curio Bay in southernmost New Zealand (see …
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