New middle and Upper Ordovician graptolite localities, North-West Nelson, New Zealand

The Middle Ordovician Section at Crown Point Peninsula, New York

The Chazy, Black River and Trenton Groups are a well studied sequence of fossiliferous limestones, dolostones and sandstones in the Champlain Valley of New York, Vermont and southern Quebec. These rocks record shallow water cyclic sedimentation in the foreland basin of Laurentia prior to and during the initial stages of the Taconic Orogeny. This field trip reviews the stratigraphy of these unit...

Coote New Zealand Futures Trust New Zealand

On Media A workshop report from US Institute for Peace examined Arab media, August, 05 (http://usip.org/virtual diplomacy/publications/reports/18.html), with special focus on attitudes to US and to the West. The relevant Arab governments play a double role since mostly, they control the media, where they appease the ideological positions of their own threatening insurgencies while focusing publ...

Archaeological excavations at Big Forest Park, West Coast, New Zealand

The machinery of the Big River mine is the most complete historical assemblage of in situ machinery for quartz mining in New Zealand. Excavations were carried out to mitigate the effects of reconstruction of the winding engine house. Comprehensive and extensive drainage of the original working compound between the winding engine, bath house, engineer's workshop and the upper terminal of the aer...

Isolated deep earthquakes beneath the North Island of New Zealand

Vegetation Mortality in the Kaimai Ranges, North Island, New Zealand!

Areas ofvegetation mortality have been recognized in the upland forests of the Kaimai Ranges, North Island, New Zealand. The mortality is not confined to any particular vegetation type, but occurs above a critical altitude that differs at different points along the ranges. The mortality is episodic and has occurred at intervals over a period of several hundred years, with severe droughts implic...