We are looking at the rocks.
Here we have all the mudstone.
We have been looking at this pattern, this is on the sea floor, and we think it is from an animal.
So this is a trace fossil.
Here we're not sure what this is but we are investigating what it could be.
I'm pouring some water onto this brown rock to see what happens.
- Where is the water going?
- It's all being soaked in.
Now I'm pouring water onto this different rock to see what happens.
It doesn't look like anything is happening.
- It just sits there or else, runs off it.
We're here at Airedale Beach, and there's fossilised wood absolutely everywhere.
I've collected a piece here and it's a piece of a tree trunk or something.
We're gonna try work out what happened to this forest.
We're up on Mount Taranaki
and we're looking at different rock formations
in the valleys and on the cliffs
We're on Mount Taranaki and we're in a gully
where loose volcanic material has been washed down
by avalanches and rain
We've been up at the ski field on Taranaki,
and we've just come down on the track.
This here is a lava flow
and it's really hard and solid
and over on the other side is a lava flow as well.
The rocks up there are very crumbly and easily fallen
which is why there's a tunnel here,
so people can walk through without getting hit by the rocks.
Here we have one of the softest things that makes up Taranaki.
It's not that soft but you can still scrape off edges like this.
This layer is layer is probably some kind of eruption or maybe just a landslide that came down.
We've drawn a section of that cliff over there
with a nice cross-laminated cut through
and then we've just come down with the boys to get this one here.
In the layers, you can see it goes from big to smaller
and then another layer starts and it goes big to small again.
There's about three layers that do it.
As you go up the cliff, it gets more gritty.
At the top there's big rocks, and they get smaller.
The bottom's gritty and as you move up you get bigger rocks then fine at the top.
Rocks are sticking out really far.
That means that they're in really soft rock
and that the weather has washed the stuff around them away.
Look what i found on Waihi Beach.
We think this is a crab.
the pincer, and the body there.
As you can see the texture there is quite rough.