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 Poleby Mike PoleIn 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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New Zealand school kids, at least when I was one, were taught to draw the Polynesian triangle. It has Hawaii at the …
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New Zealand plant fossils
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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New Zealand plant fossils
Cabin Fever and Paleocene leaf fossils in the Haast
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleEaster, 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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New Zealand Geology
The Highlands Motorsport Park ‘Jurassic Forest Safari’
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleGrowing 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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New Zealand plant fossils
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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New Zealand plant fossils
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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