Aranuian vegetation history of the Arrowsmith Range, Canterbury I. Pollen diagrams, plant macrofossils, and buried soils from Prospect Hill

Burrows, C. J.; Russell, Joshua

doi:10.1080/0028825x.1990.10412315

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“…We infer two changes, firstly the invasion of beech into already declining Phyllocladus woodland, and secondly a general opening up of vegetation, with grassland becoming widespread. The former is natural, with similar expansions of Nothofagus forest recorded in many pollen diagrams in Canterbury (Moar 1971;Lintott and Burrows 1973;Russell 1980;Burrows and Russell 1990) and elsewhere in New Zealand. The latter is evidence for human impact, and specifically, European settlement.…”

Section: Zone Interpretationsupporting

confidence: 55%

“…Vegetation in the lowest zone (ST-1) is characterised by the dominance of shrubs and herbs and is typical of a late-glacial-period pollen record from inland Canterbury (Burrows and Russell 1990). We have no age control in this zone and we cannot discount the alternative possibility that it could be early Holocene in age.…”

Section: Holocene Vegetation History Of Staces Tarn and Lake Heron Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…cf. rigida (Burrows and Russell 1990). Snow tussock grassland is extensively developed on hill summits and ridges (Bowden 1983), including around Staces Tarn.…”

Section: Vegetationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Snow tussock grassland is extensively developed on hill summits and ridges (Bowden 1983), including around Staces Tarn. There are few native trees in the study area, other than isolated stands of N. menziesii (silver beech), Hoheria lyallii and Sophora microphylla (Burrows and Russell 1990). Burrows and Russell also noted patches of Kunzea ericoides and Leptospermum scoparium occurring near where the Cameron River valley enters the Lake Heron basin.…”

Section: Vegetationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other stands to the north occur in Bush Creek, in an unnamed valley below Cascade Hill and in Downs Hut Stream. They also occur in tributaries in the east of the basin in Leach Stream, Charlie Stream and Neil Stream (Burrows and Russell 1990).…”

Section: Vegetationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes: Terra Australis 32

Haberle¹,

Stevenson²,

Prebble³

2010

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terra australis 32Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present.Since the beginning of the series, the basic colour on the spine and cover has distinguished the regional distribution of topics as follows: ochre for Australia, green for New Guinea, red for South-East Asia and blue for the Pacific Islands. From 2001, issues with a gold spine will include conference proceedings, edited papers and monographs which in topic or desired format do not fit easily within the original arrangements. All volumes are numbered within the same series. Copyright of the text remains with the contributors/authors, 2009. This book is copyright in all countries subscribing to the Berne convention. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part may be reproduced by any process without written permission. Inquiries should be made to the publisher. Among saltbush greyer than seaweed we boardwalk the yeasting waves of the old golden-perch pond. List of volumes in Terra AustralisRabbit dung dots a lake bottom dry since their coming -only once, last century, after seven inches of rain a farmer had to rescue his sheep by boat.The roo bounces down-slope, a brown branch crackling.The professor's eye, noting the local runoff and what the westerlies do, observes seas that rush in and out of a continent's middle, salt lakes spreading and emptying, hills pimpling up and down with cartoon-like speed, or gullying themselves into extinction, rainforests and deserts zipping back and forth like Tom and Jerry. A human mouse plague swiftly swarms, perhaps soon gone.Impermanent planet. Impermanent surface. All under air and water. The lunette is a wave, a dumper of sand, a collapsing tower in the mad rabbit years when its top blew off and old bones winked through, with a vault's worth of fine stone cores.Once so simply mislaid in sand, now so obligingly sluiced out to the un-subincised world that smiles at stone knives. terra australis 32Altered Ecologies: Fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes v You might as well offer your table knife to a carpenter.Cane grass and the Dreamtime's stone fight the eroding rivulets together. In today's rare downpour each lost core, or blunted scraper crowns some tiny eroding hillock, plops its anchor in the dissolving silts.The bettong whose skin took off the stone tool's edge has vanished -sacrifice to future fertility.Through the softening soil Homo sapiens's skeleton bumps up like a carp's back.Waits for the wind to shave it off in pieces.A D-section and a ti...

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Section: Zone Interpretationsupporting

confidence: 55%

Section: Holocene Vegetation History Of Staces Tarn and Lake Heron Areamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…cf. rigida (Burrows and Russell 1990). Snow tussock grassland is extensively developed on hill summits and ridges (Bowden 1983), including around Staces Tarn.…”

Section: Vegetationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Vegetationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Vegetationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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