Cenozoic bending of New Zealand basement terranes and Alpine Fault displacement: A brief review

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 295-301

  Sutherland, Rupert ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alpine Fault; Bending; Cenozoic; Deformation; New Zealand; Orocline; Reconstruction; Structure; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC ROTATION;

ALPINE FAULT; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 0033149963     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1999.9514846     Document Type: Review

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