Mid-Cretaceous granitic magmatism during the transition from subduction to extension in southern New Zealand: A chemical and tectonic synthesis

Lithos

Volumn 45, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 469-482

  Waight, Tod E ^a,b   Weaver, Stephen D ^b   Muir, Roderick J ^c  

^a DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c Isotope Geosciences Unit Scottish Universities Research and Reactor Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extension; Geochemistry; Granite; Igneous; New Zealand; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; GRANITE; MAGMATISM; SUBDUCTION; TECTONICS;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0032321965     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-4937(98)00045-0     Document Type: Article

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