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  • The Alpine Fault and sea-floor spreading

    This PDF (618 KB) is a 1971 paper by David Christoffel. He used sea-floor magnetic measurements to estimate plate movements in the southern Australian and Pacific plates. The findings showed a high rate of movement across the Alpine Fault over the last 10 million years. This helped persuade New Zealand earth scientists that transcurrent movement on the Alpine Fault was late Cenozoic rather than much older.

  • Discovery of the Alpine Fault

    This paper, reproduced as a PDF (5.11 MB), was published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1942. It records the discovery of the Alpine Fault by H. W. Wellman and R. W. Willett.

  • 'The geological spieler' by Henry Lawson

    This story by Henry Lawson shows how easy it was for a confidence trickster to pass himself off as a geologist. Although Lawson was an Australian, he lived in New Zealand for some years and intended the story to be set there.

  • The geomorphology of the coastal district of south-western Wellington

    This is a PDF (1.46 MB) of a 1917 paper by Charles Cotton. It includes sketches and diagrams showing the evolution of the landscape around Wellington’s coast, and is typical of the many papers on the New Zealand landscape that Cotton produced.

  • Historical Studies Group, Geological Society of New Zealand

    This group aims to document the history of earth science in New Zealand. The page links to a history of the society, and also covers changes in earth science since 1955.

  • On Mining in New Zealand

    Written by James Hector, this was originally a series of lectures delivered in 1869. It was published the following year in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute (PDF, 2.62 MB).

  • RSNZ: a selection of notable NZ papers on geology & geophysics

    A selection of important older papers on aspects of New Zealand earth science that have been digitised by the Royal Society of New Zealand.

  • Tephra studies in New Zealand: an historical review

    This paper (PDF, 2.63 MB) on volcanic ash deposits is by David Lowe. It was published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1990.

More suggestions and sources

    • Burrows, Colin J. Julius Haast in the Southern Alps. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2005.

    • Burton, Peggy. The New Zealand Geological Survey, 1865–1965. DSIR Information Series 52. Wellington: GSNZ, 1965.

    • Gage, Maxwell, and Simon Nathan. A geologist remembers: recollections of fieldwork. Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication 102. Wellington: GSNZ, 1999.

    • Hochstetter, Ferdinand von, translated and edited by C. A. Fleming. Geology of New Zealand: contributions to the geology of the provinces of Auckland and Nelson. Wellington: Government Printer, 1959.

    • McEwen, Mary. Charles Fleming – environmental patriot. Nelson: Craig Potton, 2005.

    • Nathan, Simon. Harold Wellman: a man who moved New Zealand. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2005.

    • New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, New Zealand Geological Survey centenary issue 8 no. 6 (December 1965).



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