This photobook, “The Trace Fossils of Gemstone Beach”, highlights the diversity of trace fossils that can be found in argillite stones on this Southland beach. It is heavy on photos and light on text, a celebration of these stones. Additional mainly photographic material is included on Gemstone Beach, tumble polishing, and other stones I have collected from other beaches as well.
Six years ago, I compiled a small photobook “The Trace Fossil Stones of Gemstone Beach” to accompany some stones I had sold to a Dunedin rock shop. I constructed it online and it was printed by Diamond Photo. Unfortunately the company changed their server sometime along the way and I have been unable to reprint the book, and some inquiries have been made about it. I have now produced this expanded revised version, reconstructing the content and updating it along the way.
It’s an A4 size book, 32 pages long. There is pratically no overlap with the entry on trace fossils in my other recent book “What’s This Stone? A Photographic Collection of Finds from Gemstone Beach”. There are photos of 28 specimens of trace fossil stones in “What’s This Stone?”, 43 in the photobook – only one stone features fully in both though the photobook has close-ups of the traces of three of the specimens in “What’s This Stone?”. The photos of stones are larger in this photobook. It costs $40 plus postage – see the end of this Post for further pricing details.
Pages 4 to 7:
Pages 8, 9, 12 and 13:
Four more pages, after the main trace fossils section:
Pages 20, 22, 24 and 27 (later Posts will give some information on the stones from other beaches – these will be listed at the end of this Post):
Among the final pages:
Prices for this book are as follows: $40 per book picked up personally, $47.50 for posting to a non-rural address in New Zealand, $52.50 to a rural address. Orders can be emailed to me at john.tumblestone@gmail.com and I will reply with bank account details.
If you buy a 2027 TumbleStone Calendar at the same time, then postage costs stay the same: book and Calendar to a non-rural address is $77.50, to a rural address is $82.50. Note: The Calendars won’t be available until 16 November. If you are also wanting a copy of the book, “What’s This Stone? A Photographic Collection of Finds from Gemstone Beach” by myself and Chrissy Lampitt, that’s an extra $40.
POSTS PROVIDING INFORMATION ON PAGES OF OTHER STONES IN THIS BOOK (those in italics below are not yet available):
Page 18, “Not a Trace Fossil?”
Page 22, “Other Gemstone Beach Stones”
Page 23, “More Stones Collected from Gemstone Beach”
Page 24, “Stones Collected from Ward Beach, Southern Marlborough”
Page 25, “More Stones Collected from Ward Beach, Southern Marlborough”
Page 26, “Stones Collected from Birdlings Flat near Christchurch”
Page 27, “Stones Collected from Timaru South”
Page 28, “Stones Collected from Kakanui, North Otago”
Page 29, “More Stones Collected from Kakanui, North Otago”
Page 30, “Stones Collected from Slope Point, Southland”
Page 31, “Stones Collected from Riverton/Aparima, Southland”
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