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He married Diane Olliver in 1962, they had met at Scottish Country Dancing. They had three children Peter, Robert and Trina. == Books ==
Books
• New Zealand Geological Survey tour guide: Quaternary geology, tectonics and geomorphology of Wellington Peninsula (1973) • A Tramper’s Guide to the Geology of the Tararuas (1973,1974) • Wellington’s Restless Coast: changes in land and sea at Turakirae Head (1974,1975) • Rugged Landscape – The Geology of Central New Zealand including Wellington, Wairarapa Manawatu and the Marlborough Sounds (1975) • The geology of New Zealand (1978, co-author) • 1840: the land and the people (1978, co-author) • New Zealand Adrift: the theory of continental drift in a New Zealand setting (1980) on plate tectonics • Lands in Collision: discovering New Zealand’s past geography (1985) • The Reed New Zealand Atlas (1987, co-author) • On shaky ground: a geological guide to the Wellington metropolitian region (1991) • Prehistoric New Zealand (1988, 1995 (revised)) • Hettangian-Sinemurian (early Jurassic) ammonimites of New Zealand (2004) == References ==