{"title":"Spinizonocolpites prominatus (McIntyre) Stover & Evans: fossil Nypa pollen, taxonomy, morphology, global distribution, and paleoenvironmental significance","authors":"D. Pocknall, C. Clowes, D. Jarzen","doi":"10.1080/00288306.2022.2078376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2022.2078376","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The fossil species Monosulcites prominatus was described from Early Eocene sediments in Canterbury, New Zealand. It resembles the pollen of the mangrove palm Nypa fruticans. Subsequently, the new genus Spinizonocolpites was proposed with a type species, S. echinatus, which we consider to be a junior synonym of S. prominatus. However, S. prominatus has not always been recognised as the type species, with many authors deferring to the ‘original’ type, S. echinatus. Some 37 species of Spinizonocolpites have been described, though several are undoubtedly synonyms. Many have an affinity to Nypa and the earliest appeared in the Late Cretaceous, especially in northern South America, Africa, India and Borneo. The Indian subcontinent appears to have been the global centre of diversity of Nypa-like species during the Paleocene with a high diversity of Spinizonocolpites species. Nypa was most widespread globally during the Eocene, but the onset of global cooling in the late Middle Eocene resulted in the ultimate range contraction to Northern Australia, the Indonesian Archipelago, the Philippine Islands and China present day. The presence of Nypa pollen in sediment samples indicates a mangrove environment of muddy, slow moving tidal estuaries or rivers influenced by fresh and brackish waters.","PeriodicalId":49752,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics","volume":"66 1","pages":"558 - 570"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45978008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taxonomy and taphonomy of Pliocene bulimoid land snails from Māngere, northern New Zealand, with descriptions of a new genus and two new species (Gastropoda: Bothriembryontidae: Placostylinae)","authors":"F. Brook, B. Hayward","doi":"10.1080/00288306.2022.2072904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2022.2072904","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Two species of bulimoid land snails, Maoristylus pliocenicus n. sp. and Archaeostylus n. gen. manukauensis n. sp., in family Bothriembryontidae, subfamily Placostylinae, are described here from fossil shells that were recovered from subsurface Kaawa Formation shelly sediments at Māngere, northern New Zealand. These fossils are of late Pliocene age (Waipipian Stage [latest Zanclean-early Piacenzian], 3.7–3.0 Ma), and are the oldest known representatives of the Placostylinae. The associated fossil fauna indicates that the land snail shells were deposited at shallow subtidal depths in a coastal inlet. The teleoconch of Maoristylus pliocenicus n. sp. has highly distinctive rugose sculpture and in this regard is very similar to modern M. etheridgei (Hedley, 1891) from Lord Howe Island. The latter taxon was described as a subspecies of M. bivaricosus (Gaskoin, 1855), but it is here treated as a separate species on account of its distinctive shell morphology. Archaeostylus n. gen. manukauensis n. sp. has apertural morphology that differs markedly from other taxa in Placostylinae. Rather than being ancestral to extant taxa it probably belonged to a sister lineage. Both it and the M. pliocenicus n. sp. lineage went extinct in New Zealand during latest Pliocene or Pleistocene time, possibly as a consequence of a cooling climate. http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:68553D05-C54C-4EFE-AF08-C7E4A17E5B0C","PeriodicalId":49752,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics","volume":"65 1","pages":"491 - 506"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43761055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geochemical evolution of high-pH sodic salt pans in Central Otago, New Zealand","authors":"D. Craw, C. Rufaut, Dhanashree Pillai, G. Kerr","doi":"10.1080/00288306.2022.2076701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2022.2076701","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 Soil-free sodic salt pans with local pH >10 have formed on loess and schist-derived clay surfaces in the semi-arid climate of Central Otago. This study identifies evaporative mineral distributions and associated variations in surface geochemistry, and these results are relevant to survival of rare halophytic plants on some of the pans. Evaporative salts on pan surfaces are dominated by NaCl from marine aerosols, and Na-sulphates and Na-carbonates. Some of the Na in evaporites was derived from alteration of schist-derived albite and Na-bearing smectite formed from albite. The high pH pan surfaces result from a combination of long-term (decades to millennia) albite alteration and short-term (minutes to months) Na-carbonate dissolution and recrystallisation. This muscovite is variably cemented by evaporative salts, and some crusts have abundant salt-dissolution voids. High pH has facilitated dissolution of aluminium and silica from albite and smectite, with evaporative precipitation of Al-oxyhydroxide contributing to crust cementation. Different dissolution rates of evaporative minerals during rain events and damp seasons results in differential mobility of salt components downslope. The salt pans are physically and chemically dynamic features that have formed on time scales of decades to centuries.","PeriodicalId":49752,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48721261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Ellis, S. Barker, C. Wilson, I. Hamling, S. Hreinsdóttir, F. Illsley‐Kemp, E. Mestel, J. Muirhead, Bubs Smith, G. Leonard, M. Savage, P. Villamor, P. Otway
{"title":"Taupōinflate: illustrating detection limits of magmatic inflation below Lake Taupō","authors":"S. Ellis, S. Barker, C. Wilson, I. Hamling, S. Hreinsdóttir, F. Illsley‐Kemp, E. Mestel, J. Muirhead, Bubs Smith, G. Leonard, M. Savage, P. Villamor, P. Otway","doi":"10.1080/00288306.2022.2076700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2022.2076700","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Lake Taupō (Taupō-nui-a-Tia) infills the composite caldera above an active rhyolitic magmatic system in the central Taupō Volcanic Zone (TVZ). Ground deformation is a key unrest indicator at Taupō volcano. We present a spreadsheet tool, TaupōInflate, to calculate and plot ground deformation from magmatic inflation at depth beneath Taupō caldera. Examples show detection limits for inflating magma bodies and their ascent through the crust beneath Lake Taupō. Source locations where it is challenging to detect even substantial volumes of inflating magma bodies are as large as 20 km3, with volume changes up to 0.01 km3, owing to the restricted station placement around the lake, although a dike propagating from shallow crustal depths towards the surface is likely to be detectable. For a magma overpressure of 10 MPa, the sizes of detectable inflating bodies at depths of 5–8 km using the present monitoring system are larger than the volumes of many past eruptions, illustrating the importance of future improvements to the geodetic network. We discuss the potential for future equipment installation, including lakebed instrumentation that would require approval of local iwi Ngāti Tūwharetoa through the Tūwharetoa Māori Trust Board who oversee the health and wellbeing of Lake Taupō.","PeriodicalId":49752,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48359939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cover successions on early Paleozoic basement in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica – evidence for Cretaceous plant-bearing rocks at South Polar latitudes","authors":"C. Adams, J. Bradshaw","doi":"10.1080/00288306.2022.2063347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2022.2063347","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Detrital zircon ages from sandstones in isolated plant-bearing, probably fluviatile sedimentary successions at Milan Rock and Mount Murphy, Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica indicate probable mid-Cretaceous (95--105 Ma) depositional ages. Rocks of similar age reported from the Amundsen Sea have indicated warm, humid environments and the new data reported here for plant-bearing rocks would now place such conditions close (>80°S) to the contemporary mid-Cretaceous South Pole","PeriodicalId":49752,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics","volume":"66 1","pages":"130 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45729956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Philip Morris, T. Little, R. V. Van Dissen, M. Hemphill-Haley, J. Kearse, M. Hill, Jessica L. Vermeer, K. Norton
{"title":"A revised paleoseismological record of late Holocene ruptures on the Kekerengu Fault following the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake","authors":"Philip Morris, T. Little, R. V. Van Dissen, M. Hemphill-Haley, J. Kearse, M. Hill, Jessica L. Vermeer, K. Norton","doi":"10.1080/00288306.2022.2059766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2022.2059766","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 The Mw 7.8 Kaikōura earthquake of November 14th, 2016 provided rare opportunities to evaluate ground deformation during a large strike-slip earthquake. Following the earthquake, both halves of a displaced paleoseismic trench were re-excavated and extended to test, refine, and extend the known late Holocene chronology of surface rupturing earthquakes on the Kekerengu Fault. 28 organic-bearing samples were collected during these excavations. Of these, six samples provided new 14C ages that could be superimposed on the preferred age model of (Little VDR, Kearse J, Norton K, Benson A, Wang N. 2018. Kekerengu fault, New Zealand: Timing and size of Late Holocene surface ruptures. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 108(3B):1556–1572) to derive an expanded, updated age model of earthquake events on the fault that is now based on 16 dated samples. Including the 2016 earthquake, we recognise six surface rupturing earthquakes on the Kekerengu Fault since ∼2000 cal. B.P. Based on the last five events, our analysis yields an updated estimate of the mean recurrence interval for surface rupturing on the fault of 375 ± 32 yrs (1σ) since ∼1650 cal. B.P. An older, sixth event (E5) was not included in the preferred age model due to uncertainties in interpretation; however, incorporating this event into an alternative, six-event age model would adjust the recurrence interval estimate to 433 ± 22 yrs (1σ) since ∼2000 cal. B.P.","PeriodicalId":49752,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics","volume":"66 1","pages":"342 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48674758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Usefulness of optical enhancement endoscopy combined with magnification to improve detection of intestinal metaplasia in the stomach.","authors":"Sergio Sobrino-Cossío, Oscar Teramoto-Matsubara, Fabian Emura, Raúl Araya, Vítor Arantes, Elymir S Galvis-García, Marisi Meza-Caballero, Blanca Sinahi García-Aguilar, Arturo Reding-Bernal, Noriya Uedo","doi":"10.1055/a-1759-2568","DOIUrl":"10.1055/a-1759-2568","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Background and study aims</b> The light blue crest observed in narrow band imaging endoscopy has high diagnostic accuracy for diagnosis of gastric intestinal metaplasia (GIM). The objective of this prospective study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of magnifying i-scan optical enhancement (OE) imaging for diagnosing the LBC sign in patients with different levels of risk for gastric cancer in a Mexican clinical practice. <b>Patients and methods</b> Patients with a history of peptic ulcer and symptoms of dyspepsia or gastroesophageal reflux disease were enrolled. Diagnosis of GIM was made at the predetermined anatomical location and white light endoscopy and i-scan OE Mode 1 were captured at the two predetermined biopsy sites (antrum and pyloric regions). <b>Results</b> A total of 328 patients were enrolled in this study. Overall GIM prevalence was 33.8 %. The GIM distribution was 95.4 % in the antrum and 40.5 % in the corpus. According to the Operative Link on Gastritis/Intestinal-Metaplasia Assessment staging system, only two patients (1.9 %) were classified with high-risk stage disease. Sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, positive and negative likelihood ratios, and accuracy of both methods (95 % C. I.) were 0.50 (0.41-0.60), 0.55 (0.48-0.62), 0.36 (0.31-0.42), 0.68 (0.63-0.73), 1.12 (0.9-1.4), 0.9 (0.7-1.1), and 0.53 (0.43-0.60) for WLE, and 0.96 (0.90-0.99), 0.91 (0.86-0.94), 0.84 (0.78-0.89), 0.98 (0.94-0.99), 10.4 (6.8-16), 0.05 (0.02-0.12), and 0.93 (0.89-0.95), respectively. The kappa concordance was 0.67 and the reliability coefficient was 0.7407 for interobserver variability. <b>Conclusions</b> Our study demonstrated the high performance of magnifying i-scan OE imaging for endoscopic diagnosis of GIM in Mexican patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":49752,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics","volume":"8 1","pages":"E441-E447"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9010107/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80883742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A detailed biostratigraphic framework for 0–1.2 Ma Quaternary sediments of north-eastern Zealandia","authors":"M. Crundwell, A. Woodhouse","doi":"10.1080/00288306.2022.2054828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2022.2054828","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49752,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44478267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Origin and evolution of nephrites, diopsidites and giant diopside crystals from the contact zones of the Pounamu Ultramafics, Westland, New Zealand","authors":"A. Cooper","doi":"10.1080/00288306.2022.2050771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2022.2050771","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Diopside-rich rocks (diopsidites) are interlaminated with nephrite in boulders derived from metasomatic contacts developed between Pounamu Ultramafic meta-serpentinite and country rock Alpine Schist, Westland, New Zealand. Petrographic textures indicate that parental tremolite rock, formed by metasomatic diffusion during metamorphism, has been intensely deformed and recrystallised to alternating semi-nephrite and nephrite domains during development of a secondary crenulation cleavage. Nephrites are subsequently sequentially overprinted by porphyroblastic tremolite, diopside, then further tremolite. Crystallisation is controlled by fluctuating activities of SiO2, CaO and H2O in associated fluids. Pervasive dissolution of nephritic tremolite and crystallisation of diopside generates diopsidites containing accessory epidote, uvarovite and zincian chromite formed in equilibrium with H2O-rich fluids. Diopsidites are in turn overgrown by coarse grained (in places > 50 cm long) diopside crystals, interpreted to have infilled an extension fracture that formed during ongoing uplift of the Southern Alps.","PeriodicalId":49752,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics","volume":"66 1","pages":"88 - 101"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48029952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stratigraphy and palaeogeography of the Cretaceous Blue Spur Conglomerate, Otago, New Zealand","authors":"D. Craw, N. Mortimer","doi":"10.1080/00288306.2022.2039223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2022.2039223","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 The non-marine Blue Spur Conglomerate in southeast Otago hosts the largest gold paleoplacer in New Zealand, but its formal stratigraphic relationships have thus far not been clear. The name reflects the extensive formation of ferrous iron-bearing diagenetic clay. We present a reference section for the unit, which is in part late Haumurian in age (c. 81–66 Ma). The unit is defined as a formal Member of the nearby, but not contiguous, Late Cretaceous Taratu Formation, Onekakara Group, Haerenga Supergroup. The Blue Spur Conglomerate contains three principal clast types: proximal schist debris, quartz pebbles and recycled distal greywacke cobbles, whereas the wider Taratu Formation is dominated by quartz pebble conglomerate with subordinate lithic clasts. Rare clasts of silicified quartz pebble conglomerate (silcrete) in both units attest to the recycling of older mature quartz sediments. The Blue Spur Conglomerate formed locally at the base of active normal fault scarps that controlled a broad valley in which the regionally extensive Taratu Formation accumulated. Detrital gold in the Blue Spur Conglomerate had both proximal and distal sources, whereas the Taratu Formation elsewhere received only distal gold.","PeriodicalId":49752,"journal":{"name":"New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics","volume":"66 1","pages":"74 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2022-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43687985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}