KAIKOURA, New Zealand – In terms of human life, the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that hit New Zealand this month was relatively merciful: two fatalities. But geologically, it moved roads and mountains and ...

When University of Delaware professors Doug Miller, Art Trembanis, Craig Cary and Patrick Gaffney first began offering of a series of study abroad trips to New Zealand, they wanted the program to not ...

THE geology of New Zealand is of exceptional variety and interest. The literature is very scattered, and the valuable reports published by the Geological Survey and Mines Department of New Zealand are ...

1. The spatial basis of biogeography -- 2. Analyzing the timeline of evolution -- 3. New Zealand geology -- 4. Introduction to the New Zealand biota and its geography -- 5. Biogeography of northern ...

Owing to the surface configuration in this locality, the winds blow alternately from opposite directions, carving sand-blast facets on flat limestone fragments. The arrangement of the facets with ...

THESE three books are written with an educational purpose, and are kept within the limifs of size suitable for schools. They alike bear witness to the prominent place taken by geology in the outlook ...

WELLINGTON, Nov 6, (Xinhua): An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9 jolted northwest of Wellington, New Zealand's capital, on ...

"This atlas provides new insights into the morphology of beach gold from a wide variety of beach settings, with different erosional characteristics, sediment supplies, and tectonic uplift rates," the ...

Researchers have recently focused on intriguing geological formations on Venus, including peculiar structures on its surface ...