Most 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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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
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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Biogeography & Vegetation
Australian Grasstrees – ancient registrars of fire
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn Australia there are trees that look like inside-out chimneys. Strong but sensitive – a fungal attack can leave them as a …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
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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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 Fossil Palm Swamps of Central Otago, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleOne of the endearing memories I have during my PhD was working on the banks above the Kawarau River near Cromwell (Central …
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In the old days in New Zealand, you needed to add the right prefix to telephone numbers to ring the adjacent villages. Our …
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At Ship Creek, just a few kilometers north of Haast, in South Westland, New Zealand, there is a wonderful boardwalk though an …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
The Kai Point Coal Mine – Late Cretaceous vegetation treasure-trove
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe lowlands south of Dunedin (New Zealand), used to be almost impassable wetlands. The local Maoris were incredulous when the first Western …