Pleistocene glaciomarine sediments of the kisbee formation, wilson river, southwest Fiordland, and some tectonic and paleoclimatic implications

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 193-204

  Turnbull, Ian ^a   Sutherland, Rupert ^a   Beu, Alan ^a   Edwards, Anthony R ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b Stratigraphic Solutions Ltd   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Castlecliffian; Glaciomarine; Kisbee Formation; Marine terraces; Nannofossils; New stratigraphic name; Paleoenvironment; Pleistocene; Quaternary uplift; Southwest Fiordland; Zygochlamys

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; FAUNA; FLORA; GLACIOMARINE DEPOSIT; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBMARINE CANYON; TECTONICS; UPLIFT;

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

CLIFFIA; LIMOPSIS; ZYGOCHLAMYS;

EID: 35748981549     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288300709509831     Document Type: Article

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