Early Holocene paleoseismic history at the Pakarae locality, eastern North Island, New Zealand, inferred from transgressive marine sequence architecture

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Wilson, Kate ^a,b   Berryman, Kelvin ^b   Cochran, Ursula ^b   Little, Tim ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; EUSTACY; HOLOCENE; MARINE SEDIMENT; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEOSEISMICITY; TRANSGRESSION; UPLIFT;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 36248980913     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006TC002021     Document Type: Article

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