Story: Geology – overview

More links and websites

• Geological Society of New Zealand

  This website has information on many aspects of New Zealand geology as well as links to related sites.

• GNS Science

  GNS Science is a Crown Research Institute that undertakes research into the geology of New Zealand.

• New Zealand earth science databases

  Open-file databases covering different aspects of New Zealand geology

• New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

  This journal is the main place where scientific articles on New Zealand earth science are published. There is free electronic access to issues of the journal more than two years old.

• Textural zones in the Haast schist – a reappraisal

  A paper published in the New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics (2001) describing the way that the widespread schists in the South Island have been subdivided and mapped. (PDF, 3.38 MB)

• The nature and alteration of some Triassic sediments from Southland, New Zealand

  This classic paper by D. S. Coombs, published in the Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1954, documents the mineralogical changes with burial of a thick sequence of sediments in the Taringatura Hills.

More suggestions and sources

• Coates, Glen. The rise and fall of the Southern Alps. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2002.
• Hicks, Geoff, and Hamish Campbell, eds. Awesome forces: the natural hazards that threaten New Zealand. Wellington: Te Papa Press, 1998.
• Stevens, Graeme R, and others. Prehistoric New Zealand. Auckland: Heinemann Reed, 1988.
• Suggate, R. P, and others. The geology of New Zealand. 2 vols. Wellington, Government Printer, 1978.
• Thornton, Jocelyn. The Reed field guide to New Zealand geology: an introduction to rocks, minerals and fossils. New ed. Auckland: Reed Methuen, 2003.