Is the Bounty Trough off eastern New Zealand an aborted rift?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Grobys, J W G ^a,b   Gohl, K ^a   Davy, B ^c,d   Uenzelmann Neben, G ^a   Deen, T ^e,f   Barker, D ^c,d  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^d Macquarie University ^*  (New Zealand)

^e MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARC-CONTINENT COLLISION; BACKARC BASIN; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; RIFTING; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION;

ANTARCTICA; AUSTRALASIA; CHATHAM RISE; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 34548559595     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JB004229     Document Type: Article

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