Thermal history of the early Miocene Waitemata Basin and adjacent Waipapa Group, North Island, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 469-488

  Raza, Asaf ^a   Brown, Roderick W ^a   Ballance, Peter F ^b   Hill, Kevin C ^a   Kamp, Peter J J ^c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Continental extension; Fission track analysis; Geochronology; Mid Cretaceous; Miocene; Provenance; Vitrinite reflectance; Waipapa Group; Waitemata Basin

Indexed keywords

EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; MIOCENE; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; THERMAL EVOLUTION;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WAITEMATA BASIN;

EID: 0033378034     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1999.9514856     Document Type: Article

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