Pahau terrane type locality: Fan delta in an accretionary prism trench-slope basin

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 603-623

  Bassett, Kari N ^a   Orlowski, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Accretionary prism; Conglomerate; Fan delta; Lochiel Formation; Mt Cropp Fault; Mt Saul Member; New stratigraphic names; New structural names; Pahau Terrane; Torlesse Superterrane

Indexed keywords

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; CRETACEOUS; FAN DELTA; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE; TYPE LOCALITY;

AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; TORLESSE TERRANE; WORLD;

EID: 12844272857     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2004.9515079     Document Type: Article

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