Palinspastic reconstructions of southeastern Marlborough, New Zealand, for mid-Cretaceous-Eocene times

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 153-175

  Crampton, James ^a   Laird, Malcolm ^b   Nicol, Andrew ^a   Townsend, Dougal ^a   Van Dissen, Russell ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Amuri Limestone; Cretaceous; Eocene; Herring Formation; Marlborough; Mead Hill Formation; New Zealand; Paleocene; Paleogeography; Palinspastic maps; Paton Formation; Split Rock Formation

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DEFORMATION; MAPPING; PALEOGENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; RECONSTRUCTION;

MARLBOROUGH; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 0041375502     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2003.9515002     Document Type: Article

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