Landslip Hill, Pukerau, Gore District, Southland Region, New Zealandi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Landslip Hill | Hill |
| Pukerau | - not defined - |
| Gore District | District |
| Southland Region | Region |
| New Zealand | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
46° 3' 55'' South , 169° 8' 44'' East
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Gore | 12,108 (2011) | 16.1km |
| Clinton | 343 (2011) | 22.7km |
| Riversdale | 371 (2011) | 35.6km |
| Wyndham | 586 (2011) | 37.5km |
| Edendale | 583 (2011) | 39.5km |
As the name suggests, Landslip Hill is a major slumping, 1.5 kilometres north-east of Pukerau. It is noted amongst geologists and collectors for a rich variety of well preserved Late Oligocene to Miocene plant fossils. These include stems, roots, rootlets, logs, leaves, and fruits, often preserving delicate structures.
New Zealand contains many sites exhibiting plant and marine fossils. These sites are beyond the scope of Mindat which relates to mineral specimens. However as Landslip Hill has been a major collecting site for fossils in the past, it has been added as a geology source. In this respect we refer you to the Lindqvist reference below, which is a detailed study on the geology of the location.
Very briefly, the fossils are found in silcrete as part of the Gore Lignite Measures. The sequence at the site has been divided into quartz pebble conglomerate, stratified coarse grained sandstone, planar laminated fine and medium grained sandstone, mottled sandstone with pervasive root structures, and muddy conglomerate.
The secondary silica consists of spherulitic and granular chalcedony, microcrystalline quartz, and syntaxial quartz overgrowths, in total several metres thick. Scattered sarsens include silicified tree trunks. The silcrete forms erosion resistant areas on the upper scarp line.
The silcrete bed is rubbly pale reddish brown overlying poorly exposed non-cemented quartoze sandstone, sandy to muddy conglomerate, and kaolinised mudstone. A further slump just to the north is called Charters Road Slump, with silcrete here greyish-brown to white, with locally prominent vertical joints 0.5 to 4.0 metres apart.
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2 valid minerals.
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| β Kaolinite Formula: Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4 Reference: Lindqvist, J.K. (1990) Deposition and diagenesis of Landslip Hill silcrete, Gore Lignite Measures (Miocene), New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophyics, 33:1, 137-150.
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| β Quartz Formula: SiO2 Reference: Lindqvist, J.K. (1990) Deposition and diagenesis of Landslip Hill silcrete, Gore Lignite Measures (Miocene), New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophyics, 33:1, 137-150.
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| β Quartz var. Chalcedony Formula: SiO2 Reference: Lindqvist, J.K. (1990) Deposition and diagenesis of Landslip Hill silcrete, Gore Lignite Measures (Miocene), New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophyics, 33:1, 137-150.
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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| β | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| β | var. Chalcedony | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| Group 9 - Silicates | |||
| β | Kaolinite | 9.ED.05 | Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| H | Hydrogen | |
|---|---|---|
| H | β Kaolinite | Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | β Quartz | SiO2 |
| O | β Quartz var. Chalcedony | SiO2 |
| O | β Kaolinite | Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4 |
| Al | Aluminium | |
| Al | β Kaolinite | Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | β Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | β Quartz var. Chalcedony | SiO2 |
| Si | β Kaolinite | Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4 |
References
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Year (asc) Year (desc) Author (A-Z) Author (Z-A)Lindqvist, J.K. (1990) Deposition and diagenesis of Landslip Hill silcrete, Gore Lignite Measures (Miocene), New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophyics, 33:1, 137-150.
Campbell, J.D. (2002) Angiosperm fruit and leaf fossils from Miocene silcrete Landslip Hill northern Southland New Zealand, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 32:1, 149-154
Jackson, J.A. (2015) A study of plant fossils from Landslip Hill silcrete (unpub. thesis, MSc), University of Otago.
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