Forests that have disappeared so completely that you would hardly believe they really existed, have long fascinated me. When I left my …
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New Zealand paleobotany
The Lost Forest of the Ashley River, Canterbury, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleA 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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New Zealand plant fossils
Miocene Swamp Forests of St Bathans, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe 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 paleobotanyNew Zealand plant fossils
New Zealand’s Rata and Pohutakawa – riders of the Miocene storms?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThere 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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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
Podozamites – a multi-veined conifer in New Zealand’s Jurassic
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleMost conifer leaves have just one vein, whether they be the needles of pines, or the much broader leaves of some tropical …
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New Zealand paleobotanyNew Zealand plant fossils
Blue Lake, St Bathans – the most biodiverse Miocene fossil plant locality
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe 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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New Zealand GeologyNew Zealand paleobotanyNew Zealand plant fossils
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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