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  • Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest

    What latitude did the Jurassic Fossil Forest of Curio Bay grow at?

    by Mike Pole August 3, 2017
    by Mike Pole August 3, 2017

    The 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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    Deciduous Conifers in New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest at Curio Bay

    by Mike Pole June 25, 2017
    by Mike Pole June 25, 2017

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

    How Tall were the trees in New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest at Curio Bay?

    by Mike Pole May 6, 2017
    by Mike Pole May 6, 2017

    At 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’s Hawks Crag Breccia – prelude to the drift from Gondwana

    by Mike Pole March 26, 2017
    by Mike Pole March 26, 2017

    The New Zealand road network has some seriously quirky idiosyncrasies – little things we locals take for granted, but can cause some …

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    The Biggest Tree Stump in the Curio Bay Jurassic Forest

    by Mike Pole January 3, 2017
    by Mike Pole January 3, 2017

    Back 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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  • New Zealand plant fossils

    Almost a Holocaust – the latest Triassic, Pollock Road, New Zealand

    by Mike Pole February 28, 2015
    by Mike Pole February 28, 2015

    What 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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  • New Zealand Geology

    Beetroot with your Peanut Butter and Marmite? The basic geological structure of New Zealand

    by Mike Pole September 20, 2014
    by Mike Pole September 20, 2014

    New 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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    The Origin of New Zealand in Deep-Time

    by Mike Pole April 22, 2014
    by Mike Pole April 22, 2014

    Anyone who knows anything about New Zealand geology will know that it was once ‘part of Gondwana’. This is true, but how …

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    Continental Déjà Vu – the Great Escarpments (Australia, Brazil, South Africa)

    by Mike Pole April 21, 2014
    by Mike Pole April 21, 2014

    Most Australians and many tourists will be aware of a prominent topographic feature not too far from the east coast. For example, …

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