Miocene-recent tectonic and climatic controls on sediment supply and sequence stratigraphy: Canterbury basin, New Zealand

Basin Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 311-328

  Lu, Hongbo ^a,b   Fulthorpe, Craig S ^b   Mann, Paul ^b   Kominz, Michelle A ^c  

^a SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIOCENE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; WORLD;

EID: 20844456978     PISSN: 0950091X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2117.2005.00266.x     Document Type: Review

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