Miocene-recent deformation, surface elevation, and volcanic intrusion of the overriding plate during subduction initiation, offshore southern Fiordland, Puysegur margin, southwest New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 131-149

  Sutherland, Rupert ^a   Barnes, Philip ^b   Uruski, Chris ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Balleny Basin; Dredged samples; Seismic reflection; Solander Basin; Subduction

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; MIOCENE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; PLIOCENE; REVERSE FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE;

AUSTRALASIA; FIORDLAND; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHLAND;

EID: 33744468230     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2006.9515154     Document Type: Article

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