Validation of tectonic reconstructions by crustal volume balance: New Zealand through the Cenozoic

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 933-943

  Wood, R A ^a   Stagpoole, V M ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Mass balance; New Zealand; Plate tectonics; Sediment budget; Tectonic models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; EROSION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; TECTONIC MODEL;

TECTONICS;

CENOZOIC; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DEFORMATION; MODELING; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 34547092454     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26018.1     Document Type: Article

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