An Eocene to early Oligocene unconformity-bounded sequence in the Punakaiki-Westport area, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 355-363

  Lever, Helen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Eocene; Oligocene; Rapahoe Group; Sequence; Unconformity; West Coast; Whaingaroan

Indexed keywords

EOCENE; OLIGOCENE; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TECTONIC SETTING; TRANSGRESSION-REGRESSION CYCLE; UNCONFORMITY;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0034881861     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2001.9514944     Document Type: Article

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