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Campbell, Hamish.

In search of ancient New Zealand / Hamish Campbell & Gerard Hutching. - North Shore, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 2007. - 239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cm

"Co-published with GNS Science, New Zealand." Includes index.

Introduction. Hello, Zealandia! ; The Earth's crust ; Basalt, granite and volcanoes -- Gondwanaland (505-83 million years ago). From Ur with love : our oldest stuff ; The greywacke story ; The oldest rocks : Western Province ; Hot rocks : Median Batholith ; The younger old rocks : Eastern Province -- Zealandia (83-23 million years ago). Zealandian dinosaurs ; Crust busters : the tyranny of faults ; Life aboard Zealandia ; The immersion of Zealandia -- New Zealand (23-0 million years ago). The emergence of New Zealand ; The rise of the Southern Alps (5-0 million years ago) ; Riding the past 120,000 years.


Palaeontologist Hamish Campbell and natural history writer Gerard Hutching present an ... account of New Zealand's evolution aimed at the general reader. For the first time the story of the 8th continent - Zealandia - is revealed. From 3-billion-year-old grains of sand found in present-day rocks, through the momentous breakaway from Gondwanaland to the drowning and uplift of New Zealand giving rise to today's landscapes, this new book traces our absorbing geological story ... Photographs of fossils, rocks and the current landscape are linked to outstanding state-of-the-art digital imagery from the files of the New Zealand Institute for Geological and Nuclear Sciences.

ISBN: 9780143020882 0143020889

LCCN: 2007534352

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015778517 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Geology--New Zealand.
Historical geology--New Zealand.
Natural history--New Zealand.
Fossils--New Zealand.
Fossils.
Geology.
Historical geology.
Natural history.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
New Zealand.

LC Class. No.: QE348.2 / .C36 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 559.3