Mid-Cretaceous oroclinal bending of New Zealand terranes

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 461-468

  Bradshaw, J D ^a   Weaver, S D ^a   Muir, R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alpine Fault; Continental breakup; Cretaceous; Oroclinal bending; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

ALPINE FAULT; CRETACEOUS; OROCLINAL BENDING; TECTONICS; TERRANE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0030498848     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1996.9514726     Document Type: Article

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