The Awhitu volcanic complex, an offshore Pliocene volcano in the northern Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 327-334

  Stagpoole, Vaughan ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Awhitu volcanic complex; Density; Gravity modelling; Magnetic modelling; Magnetisation; Pliocene; Taranaki Basin; Volcanism; Western North Island

Indexed keywords

DENSITY; GRAVITY SURVEY; MAGNETIC SURVEY; PLIOCENE; VOLCANO;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; TARANAKI BASIN;

EID: 0033391984     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.1999.9514849     Document Type: Article

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