Timing of normal faulting in the waikato coal measures, New Zealand, and its implications for coal-seam geometry

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 101-113

  Hall, Steven L ^a   Nicol, Andrew ^b   Moore, Tim A ^a,c   Bassett, Kari N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c Solid Energy New Zealand Limited   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Coal seam geometry; Normal faults; Waikato Coal Measures

Indexed keywords

COAL SEAM; FAULTING; NORMAL FAULT; OLIGOCENE; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; WAIKATO;

EID: 33744457248     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2006.9515151     Document Type: Article

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