The Wairarapa Fault is one of New Zealand’s large active faults running along the eastern edge of the Rimutaka range from Palliser Bay north into the Wairarapa. It was responsible for the massive magnitude 8.2 earthquake that violently shook the lower North Island in 1855 in New Zealand’s largest historically recorded ‘quake. This Google Earth […]
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James Crampton and Marianna Terezow’s The Kiwi Fossil Hunter’s Handbook won the LIANZA Elsie Locke Award in the non fiction category. With James away from town, Marianna attended the awards ceremony last night to accept the prize. Here you can see clearly that Marianna was one of the people behind the book! Armed with the fossil
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Palliser Bay is an isolated sweep of coastline about 2 hours drive from Wellington. It is separated from New Zealand’s busy capital city by the Rimutaka Range. Yesterday I visited the area with a group of Lower Hutt school children as part of their Year Seven geology camp. Fully armed with the “Kiwi Fossils Hunter’s