Cretaceous demise of the Moa plate and strike-slip motion at the Gondwana margin

Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 279-282

  Sutherland, Rupert ^a   Hollis, Chris ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cretaceous; New Zealand; Pacific; Radiolaria; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035263447     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<0279:CDOTMP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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