New Zealand Geophysical Society
Newsletter No. 50 July 1998
Joint issue with Geological Society of NZ
CONTENTS


  • From the Presidents(J. Beavan & J. Pettinga)

2

  • ARTICLES

4

South Island Plate Boundary

4

New Zealand and UNCLOS (LINZ, NIWA & IGNS)

7

Mapping and geodetic coordinate systems (I. Reilly)

13

Maxwell Gage photograph collection (S. Nathan

18

"Torlesse": Has the term outlived its usefulness (J.A. Grant-Mackie)

21

An ethical problem: the Redcliffs Cave case (S. Nathan)

24

Quantitative stratigraphic techniques (J.I. Raine, J. Crampton & R. Cooper)

26

New IGCP Programmes (V.E. Neall)

31

Geologist at Te Papa (H.J. Campbell)

32

"Awesome Forces" at Te Papa (I. Reilly)

33

WWW (C Bryan)

36

Geological Society on the Web (S. Nathan)

36

Public support and school visits; are we doing enough (W. Dickinson)

38

Areal extent of Taupo Ignimbrite in Hawkes Bay (M. Bishop & others)

40

  • NEWS

News from the Geology Department, Auckland (B. Haywood)

42

News from the Dept of Geological Sciences, Canterbury (S. Weaver)

44

  • LETTER

Jargon and woolly thinking (J.D. Bradshaw)

48

  • REVIEWS

Two geophysical conferences (S. Henrys)

50

Applied geophysics conferences (D. Nobes)

51

"You can't win em all" by Bob Norman (I. Reilly)

53

"Pythagoras Trousers" by Margaret Wertheim (G. Turner)

55

"A field guide to Auckland" (G. Browne)

57

  • NOMINATIONS FOR AWARDS

58

  • NOTICES OF MEETINGS

62

  • COMING EVENTS

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