Trench-sedimentation versus accreted submarine fan -an approach to regional-scale facies analysis in a Mesozoic accretionary complex: 'Torlesse' terrane, northeastern North Island, New Zealand

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 132, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 125-160

  Leverenz, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Accretionary wedge; Depositional environment; Raukumara Peninsula; Sedimentary processes; Torlesse; Trenches

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; MESOZOIC; SUBMARINE FAN; TRENCH;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; TORLESSE TERRANE;

EID: 0034015609     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(00)00005-1     Document Type: Article

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