Sometime in the 1980s my Prof, ‘JDC’ (Doug Campbell of the Otago University), showed me a box of spectacular leaf fossils that …
Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
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Autobiography & Travel
Would you like a beer? – Guests of the Kalimantan Police
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleRoni is a Batak. This is a christian tribe that lives in the Lake Toba area of the otherwise Muslim Sumatra. The Bataks …
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Autobiography & Travel
Chromite and Pine Forests – the closest I’ll ever get to the Old Syria
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleOn 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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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
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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Archaeology, History & Culture
(Both) Battles of Breitenfeld – a day’s walk near Leipzig
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIt is a macabre thought that in these days of GIS and databases, someone could probably come up with a map of …
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A few years ago I used to teach American classes that came to the University of Queensland. One evening my Stanford class …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Globalisation in the Jurassic – the fossil fern Coniopteris in New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleOne of the plant fossils that turns up in New Zealand’s Jurassic rocks is a delicate-looking fern frond called Coniopteris (Arber, 1917; …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Palissya – mysterious cone of New Zealand’s Jurassic forests
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn the early 1980s when I was working on the Jurassic fossil forest of Curio Bay, near the bottom end of New Zealand’s …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
Thinking Outside the Triangle – Polynesian Origins
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleNew Zealand school kids, at least when I was one, were taught to draw the Polynesian triangle. It has Hawaii at the …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Almost a Holocaust – the latest Triassic, Pollock Road, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleWhat a difference nearly thirty years makes. In 1986 the Prof of Geology at Otago University showed me some recently collected plant …