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XIV.—On the Tertiary Coals of New Zealand
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2013
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Coal deposits of Tertiary age have now been found more or less throughout the two great islands (north and south) of New Zealand. They are best known, and they have been chiefly worked, however, in the provinces of Otago, Nelson, Canterbury, and Auckland. Their apparent more meagre development in other provinces is probably simply due to the circumstance that the latter have not, as yet, been so thoroughly explored or so extensively colonised and peopled as the others. The explorations, however, of provincial and geological surveyors, of prospecting goldminers and sheep-owners, and of other pioneers of civilisation, are daily adding to the number of the known coal-fields of New Zealand; and it is probably not going too far to assert, in general terms, that the whole area of its two great islands is studded over with coal-basins of various extent, depth, age, and quality of coal.
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- Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , 1865 , pp. 167 - 174
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- Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1865
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page 168 note * In all probability it will yet be found that the Tertiary coals of New Zealand are referrible to groups of three distinct ages,—corresponding so far to our Eocene, Miocene, and Pliocene subdivisions. Dr Hector already regards the Otago brown coals as of three distinct ages, and Dr Haast those of Canterbury as of at least two. Those which are mined as fuel are—for the most part at least—apparently referrible to the older or lower groups, or subdivisions, of the New Zealand Tertiaries.
page 169 note * Letters of January 1862 and September 1863.
page 169 note † In a lecture on “The Place and Power of Natural History in Colonisation, with special reference to Otago (New Zealand),” prepared for and printed by the “Young Men's Christian Association of Dunedin,” Dunedin, January 1862. Extracts therefrom reprinted in the “Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal” for April and July 1863.
Vide chapter on the “Geology of the Otago Lignites.”
page 171 note * It is constructed chiefly from materials contained in a Report by the Government geologist of Otago, Dr Hector—a Fellow of this Society—of date 13th April 1864.
page 171 note * The natural order or sequence of these Tables has been reversed to suit the requirements of the printer.