This thesis provides a detailed account of the mineralogy of alluvial platinum-group minerals (PGM) recovered from the Waiau River, Western Southland, and the south coast of the South Island, New Zealand. The study is based ...

The Alpine Fault, the main onshore structure in the Pacfic-Australian plate boundary, runs along the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, where it accommodates ~70% of the relative plate motion. The fault ...

The development and evolution of supergene gold and sulphide mineralisation that occurs in quartz pebble conglomerates (QPCs) from two contrasting environments is investigated. The contrasting sites in this study represent ...

The geologist James Hector (1834-1907) was, by any measure, the most important and influential scientist in nineteenth century New Zealand. In the mid 1860s, he became the first Director of the New Zealand Geological Survey ...

Baleen whales (mysticetes) form an essential part of modern ocean ecosystems, and show some of the most extreme adaptations evolved by any mammal. The evolutionary history of these animals has attracted much attention in ...

Pounamu is a Maori word used to describe nephrite and semi-nephrite. Pounamu occurs in the Whakatipu region of the South Island, New Zealand, in association with the Greenstone Melange. Pounamu formed via metasomatic ...

Foulden Maar is a latest Oligocene–earliest Miocene maar–diatreme volcano located in a vent cluster of the monogenetic Waipiata Volcanic Field in Otago, New Zealand. The present–day erosion level exposes a 1000 x 650 m ...