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In search of ancient New Zealand / Hamish Campbell & Gerard Hutching.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: North Shore, N.Z. : Penguin Books, 2007.Description: 239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780143020882
  • 0143020889
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 559.3 21
LOC classification:
  • QE348.2 .C36 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Non-Fiction - New Zealand Non-Fiction - New Zealand Waimate Non-Fiction Non Fiction 559.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Not for loan A00465351

"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.

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