New constraints on the New Zealand-South Fiji Basin continent-back-arc margin

Comptes Rendus de l'Academie de Sciences - Serie IIa: Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes

Volumn 330, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 701-708

  Herzer, Rick ^a   Mascle, Jean ^b   Davy, Bryan ^a   Ruellan, Etienne ^a   Mortimer, Nick ^b   Laporte, Christine ^a   Duxfield, Anya ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Continental margin; New Zealand; South Fiji basin

Indexed keywords

BACKARC BASIN; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; MIOCENE; OCEANIC CRUST; PLATEAU;

(SOUTHWEST); PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH FIJI BASIN;

EID: 0033948480     PISSN: 12518050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1251-8050(00)00185-3     Document Type: Article

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