The ‘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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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
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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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
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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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
What latitude did the Jurassic Fossil Forest of Curio Bay grow at?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe Jurassic fossil forest of Curio Bay today lies almost at the southern tip of New Zealand’s South Island. In the Jurassic, …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
Deciduous Conifers in New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest at Curio Bay
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleAs you pull up in the car park above the fossil forest at Curio Bay (Pole 1999, 2001, 2004, 2009), there is …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
How Tall were the trees in New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest at Curio Bay?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleAt Curio Bay near the southernmost point of New Zealand’’s South Island, you can walk around the remains of a Jurassic fossil …
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New Zealand Geology
New Zealand’s Hawks Crag Breccia – prelude to the drift from Gondwana
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe New Zealand road network has some seriously quirky idiosyncrasies – little things we locals take for granted, but can cause some …
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Palaeobotany & Palaeoclimate
The Biggest Tree Stump in the Curio Bay Jurassic Forest
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleBack in the late 1980s I had the pleasure of meeting the English scientist David Bellamy. Bellamy was famous at the time as …
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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 …
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Climate & Earth Systems
Beetroot with your Peanut Butter and Marmite? The basic geological structure of New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleNew Zealand must be one of the best places on the planet for geology. We are famous among tourists for having so …
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