Pleistocene coastal terraces of Kaikoura Peninsula and the Marlborough coast, South Island, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-73

  Ota, Yoko ^a   Pillans, Brad ^b   Berryman, Kelvin ^c   Beu, Alan ^c   Fujimori, Takatoshi ^d   Miyauchi, Takahiro ^e   Berger, Glenn ^f   Beu, A G ^c   Climo, F M ^g  

^a SENSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^d KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g Museum of New Zealand   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Amino acid dating; Chronology; Fluvial terrace; Kaikoura Peninsula; Marine terrace; Marlborough coast; Molluscan assemblage; Pleistocene; Quaternary; Tectonic deformation; Thermoluminescence dating

Indexed keywords

MARINE TERRACE; MOLLUSC ASSEMBLAGE; PLEISTOCENE; TECTONICS; TERRACE; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DATING;

NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH ISLAND, KAIKOURA RANGE; NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH ISLAND, MARLBOROUGH;

EID: 0030482005     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1996.9514694     Document Type: Article

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