Late miocene to early pliocene biofacies of wanganui and taranaki basins, New Zealand: Applications to paleoenvironmental and sequence stratigraphic analysis

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 769-785

  Hendy, Austin J W ^a   Kamp, Peter J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Biofacies; Kapitean; Matemateaonga Formation; Miocene; Opoitian; Paleoecology; Paleoenvironments; Pliocene; Sequence stratigraphy; Taranaki Basin; Tongaporutuan; Wanganui Basin

Indexed keywords

BASIN FILL; BIOFACIES; NEOGENE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; MANAWATU-WANGANUI; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; TARANAKI BASIN; WANGANUI BASIN; WORLD;

EID: 12844269296     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2004.9515088     Document Type: Article

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