Field Trips
Field trips in New Zealand cover virtually all the aspects of sedimentary geology, with the only notable exception being evaporites.
The trips proposed so far below have been selected to indicate as wide a range of sedimentary systems and process as possible and is by no means an exhaustive list. All are multi-day trips, but some can be shortened to single day excursions.
1. Pleistocene-Modern alluvial to fluvial gravel systems (South Island; Canterbury plains/Southern Alps),
2. Non-tropical carbonates (North Island; King Country/South Waikato and/or Oamaru),
3. Volcanogenic processes and deposits (North Island; Taupo Volcanic Zone),
4. “Off the shelf” - turbidites, MTD’s, debris flows (North Island; Taranaki and Auckland area, Wairarapa),
5. Sedimentary basement on an active margin – the Murihiku terrane (South Island; Catlins fossil forest, Southland syncline rocks),
6. Cretaceous-Tertiary sedimentation patterns and the K-T boundary (South Island; Marlborough),
7. Lacustrine sedimentation – modern to ancient (South Island; West Coast, Southern Lakes),
8. Māori adaptation to a volcanogenic-sedimentary setting (North Island; Rotorua),
9. Tectonics, climate, and glaciation to sea level (South Island; West Coast).
10. Geoheritage of an active plate margin – “Manawatu Terraceland” (Lower North Island)