This year I headed down to the Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay, in one of the worst stretches of spring weather …
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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
Bioturbation near the Jurassic Fossil Forests at Curio Bay
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleThe ‘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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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
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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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
How Much Carbon Dioxide was in the Atmosphere of New Zealand’s Jurassic Curio Bay Fossil Forest?
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleHow do you figure out how much carbon dioxide was in the atmosphere millions of years ago? In the Jurassic, the fossil …
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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 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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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
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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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 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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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
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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Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
Horsetail Marshes of the New Zealand Jurassic
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn the Jurassic, New Zealand had ‘horsetails’ (Latin: Equisetum) – an odd-looking plant , a bit like a long brush with whorls of …
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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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