Faulting and extension rate over the last 20,000 years in the offshore Whakatane Graben, New Zealand continental shelf

Tectonics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Lamarche, Geoffroy ^a   Barnes, Philip M ^a   Bull, Jonathan M ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; GRABEN; LAST GLACIAL; POSTGLACIAL; SUBSIDENCE;

AUSTRALASIA; BAY OF PLENTY; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; RANGITAIKI RIVER; TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE; WHAKATANE;

EID: 33845798411     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005TC001886     Document Type: Article

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