Oblique rifting in the havre trough and its propagation into the continental margin of New Zealand: Comparison with analogue experiments

Marine Geophysical Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2-4, 1996, Pages 189-201

  Benes, Vladimir ^a   Scott, Steven D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Analogue modelling; Continental margin; Havre Trough; Lithospheric rheology; Rift propagation

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL MARGINS; LITHOSPHERE; OBLIQUE RIFTING; RHEOLOGY; RIFT PROPAGATION; RIFTING;

NEW ZEALAND, NORTH ISLAND, TAMPO VOLCANIC ZONE; PACIFIC, HAVRE TROUGH;

EID: 0030485324     PISSN: 00253235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00286077     Document Type: Review

References (31)

1. Atwater, T. and Macdonald, K. C., 1977, Are Spreading Centres Perpendicular to their Transform Faults? Nature 270, 715-719.
2. Ballance, P. F., Pettinga, J. R. and Webb, C., 1982, A Model of the Cenozoic Evolution of Northern New Zealand and Adjacent Areas of the Southwest Pacific, Tectonophysics 87, 37-48.
3. Benes, V., 1995, Rift Propagation into a Continental Margin: Tectonic Study of the Western Woodlark Basin and Physical Analogue Modelling, Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, 182 pp.
4. Benes, V., Scott, S. D. and Binns, R. A., 1994, Tectonics of Rift Propagation into a Continental Margin: Western Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea, J. Geophys. Res. 99, 4439-4455.
5. Benes, V., Bocharova, N., Popov, E., Scott, S. D. and Zonenshain, L., Geophysical and Morphotectonic Study of the Transition Between Seafloor Spreading and Continental Rifting, Western Woodlark Basin, Papua New Guinea, Marine Geol. (in press).
6. Benes, V. and Davy, P., Modes of Lithospheric Extension: Experimental Verification of Strain Localization Processes, Tectonophysics (in press).
7. Benes, V., Scott, S. D. and Davy, P., Analogue Modelling of Rift Propagation into a Continental Margin, (submitted).
8. Brace, W. F., and Koldstedt, D. L., 1980, Limits on Lithospheric Stress Imposed by Laboratory Experiments, J. Geophys. Res. 85, 6248-6252.
9. Buck, W. R., 1991, Modes of Continental Lithospheric Extension, J. Geophys. Res. 96, 20161-20178.
10. Bull, J. M., Martinhod, J. and Davy, P., 1992, Buckling of the Oceanic Lithosphere from Geophysical Data and Experiments, Tectonics 11, 537-548.
11. Byerlee J. D., 1978, Friction of Rocks, Pure Appl. Geophys. 116, 615-625.
12. Carter, N. L. and Tsenn, M. C., 1987, Flow Properties of Continental Lithosphere, Tectonophysics 136, 27-63.
13. Cole, J. W. and Lewis, K. B., 1981, Evolution of the Taupo-Hikurangi Subduction System, Tectonophysics 72, 1-21.
14. Davey, F. J., 1982, The Structure of the South Fiji Basin, Tectonophysics, 87, 185-241.
15. Davy, P. and Cobbold, P. R., 1991, Experiments on Shortening of a 4-layer Model of the Continental Lithosphere, Tectonophysics 188, 1-25.
16. Gamble, J. A., Wright, I. C., and Baker, J. A., 1993, Seafloor Geology and Petrology in the Oceanic to Continental Transition Zone of the Kermadec-Havre-Taupo Volcanic Zone arc system, New Zealand, N. Z. J. Geol. Geophys. 36, 417-435.
17. Goetze, C. and Evans, B., 1979, Stress and Temperature in the Bending Lithosphere: A Mechanical Model for Basin and Range Structure, J. Geophys. Res. 88, 7457-7466.
18. Kamp, P. J. J., 1986, Relationship of the West Coast, North Island, Igneous Bodies to the Mid-Cenozoic Challenger Rift System and Subduction of the Pacific Plate, N. Z. J. Geol. Geophys. 29, 51-60.
19. Karig, D. E., 1970, Ridges and Basins of the Tonga-Kermadec Island Arc System, J. Geophys. Res. 75, 239-254.
20. Kirby, S. H., 1983, Rheology of the Lithosphere, Rev. Geophys. Space Phys. 21, 1458-1487.
21. Lewis, K. B. and Pantin, H. M., 1984, Intersection of a Marginal Basin with a Continent: Structure and Sediments of the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, in Kokelaar, B. P. and Howells, M. F. (eds.), Marginal Basin Geology: Volcanic and Associated Sedimentary and Tectonic Processes in Modern and Ancient Margina Basins, Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Publ. 16, 121-135.
22. Lynch, H. D. and Morgan, P., 1987, The Tensile Strength of the Lithosphere and the Localisation of Extension, in Coward, M. P., Dewey, J. F., and Hancock, P. L. (eds.), Continental Extensional Tectonics, Geol. Soc. Spec. Publ. 28, 53-65.
23. Malahoff, A., Feden, R. H. and Fleming, H. S., 1982, Magnetic Anomalies and Tectonic Fabric of Marginal Basins North of New Zealand, J. Geophys. Res. 87, 4109-4125.
24. Pelletier, B. and Louat, R., 1989, Seismotectonics and Present-Day Relative Plate Motions in the Tonga-Lau and Kermadec-Havre Region, Tectonophysics 165, 237-250.
25. Ranalli, G. and Murphy, D. C., 1987, Rheological Stratification of the Lithosphere, Tectonophysics, 132, 281-295.
26. Robin, P.-Y. and Jowett, C., 1986, Computerized Density Contouring and Statistical Evaluation of Orientation Data Using Counting Circles and Continuous Weighting Functions, Tectonophysics 121, 207-223.
27. Sawyer, D., 1985, Brittle Failure in the Upper Mantle During Extension of Continental Lithosphere, J. Geoph. Res. 90, 3021-3025.
28. Steckler, M. S. and ten Brink, U. S., 1986, Lithospheric Strength Variations as a Control on New Plate Boundaries: Examples from the Northern Red Sea Region, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 79, 120-132.
29. Vink, G. E., Morgan, W. J. and Zhao, W. L., 1984, Preferential Rifting of Continents: A Source of Displaced Terranes, J. Geophys. Res. 89, 10072-10076.
30. Wright, I. C., 1992, Shallow Structure and Active Tectonism of an Offshore Continental Back-Arc Spreading System: The Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, Marine Geol. 103, 287-309.
31. Wright, I. C., 1993, Pre-Spread Rifting and Heterogeneous Volcanism in the Southern Havre Trough Back-Arc Basin, Marine Geol. 113, 179-200.