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The Ordovician Rocks of New Zealand

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

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Throughout the western portion of the South Island of New Zealand there extends a series of high ranges made up very largely of unfossiliferous greywacke and argillite, with rarely limestone. Parts of these formations have been variously grouped as the Aorere and Mount Arthur series and considered to be of Ordovician age.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1936

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