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  • Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest

    Podozamites – a multi-veined conifer in New Zealand’s Jurassic

    by Mike Pole March 18, 2016
    by Mike Pole March 18, 2016

    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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    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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    Giant Pea Pod fossils in New Zealand’s Miocene

    by Mike Pole March 5, 2016
    by Mike Pole March 5, 2016

    Pea pod fossils in New Zealand were first found by Aline Holden, a pioneer of New Zealand plant fossil research. She found …

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    Hoop Pine fossils – dry rainforest in New Zealand’s Miocene

    by Mike Pole February 27, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 27, 2016

    In a little patch of shale, continually flaking onto the road near Bannockburn (central South Island, New Zealand), there are the unmistakable fossils …

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  • Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest

    New Zealand: The Jurassic fossil forest at Curio Bay

    by Mike Pole February 15, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 15, 2016

    If you make your way down to almost the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island, you can walk among the stumps of …

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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 Pole November 27, 2015
    by Mike Pole November 27, 2015

    Sometime 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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  • Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest

    Globalisation in the Jurassic – the fossil fern Coniopteris in New Zealand

    by Mike Pole July 8, 2015
    by Mike Pole July 8, 2015

    One 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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  • Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest

    Palissya – mysterious cone of New Zealand’s Jurassic forests

    by Mike Pole May 28, 2015
    by Mike Pole May 28, 2015

    In 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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    Cabin Fever and Paleocene leaf fossils in the Haast

    by Mike Pole January 23, 2015
    by Mike Pole January 23, 2015

    Easter, 1971. The family is holed-up in a tiny home-made caravan at Cole Creek, in New Zealand’s forest-clad South Westland just north …

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    The Highlands Motorsport Park ‘Jurassic Forest Safari’

    by Mike Pole January 13, 2015
    by Mike Pole January 13, 2015

    Growing up in Alexandra it inconceivable that Cromwell might somehow overtake Alex. Alexandra was The Hub. Cromwell was the little place you …

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