Sedimentary cyclicity in the marine Pliocene-Pleistocene of the Wanganui basin (New Zealand): Sequence stratigraphic motifs characteristic of the past 2.5 m.y.

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 524-537

  Saul, G ^a   Naish, T R ^a   Abbott, S T ^a   Carter, R M ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LIME; LIMESTONE; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; ORBITS; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; FOURTH-ORDER SEQUENCES; HIGHSTAND SYSTEMS TRACT; REGRESSIVE SYSTEMS TRACTS; STRATIGRAPHIC RECORDS; STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCES; TERRIGENOUS SEDIMENT; TRANSGRESSIVE SYSTEMS TRACTS;

STRATIGRAPHY;

CYCLIC SEDIMENTATION; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WANGANUI BASIN;

EID: 0032799072     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1999)111<0524:SCITMP>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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