Sand

Description

This sand is from the collection of the late Ivor Treby. It was collected near the Champange Pool at a geothermal reserve in Waiotapu. Renowned for its vividly coloured pools it has become a tourist attraction known as Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland. The primrose yellow of this ‘sand’ is caused by high levels of sulphur.

Ivor was a biochemistry teacher and poet with over 400 published poems. He considered himself to be a gay literary activist.

Ivor took early retirement in the 1980s and dedicated his time to researching two Victorian/Edwardian women poets who wrote under the pseudonym Michael Field. He also spent much of the next 20 years travelling abroad. Wherever he went he collected samples of sand and sediment.

He was meticulously organised. His personal archive of poems, postcards, letters and research is held by the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. For more information on Ivor and the archive please see their website http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/modern/treby/treby.html

Accession Loan No.

27/2013/5

Collection Class

Rocks

Geology Rock Type

Sedimentary

Common Name

sand

Simple Name

sand

Full Name

volcanithermal sand

Geology Period

Holocene 10,000 - today

Family Group



Collector / Excavator

Treby, Mr Ivor Charles Francis

Collection Town

Waiotapu

Collection County

North Island

Collection Country

New Zealand

Collection Area Region

Australia and New Zealand

Collection Continent

Oceania