Controls on the formation of an anomalously thick cretaceous-age coal mire

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 399, Issue , 2006, Pages 269-290

  Moore, T A ^a,b   Li, Z ^c   Moore, N A ^d  

^a Solid Energy New Zealand Limited   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d Newman Energy Research Ltd   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Coal lithofacies; Cretaceous; Gleichenia; Greymouth coalfi eld; Huon pine; Lagarostrobus franklinii; New Zealand; Paleochannels; Paleomire; Paparoa coal measures; Phyllocladdidites mawsonii; Stacked mires; Syndepositional fault

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; COAL DEPOSITS; PEAT; SANDSTONE; SUBSIDENCE;

CRETACEOUS; GLEICHENIA; GREYMOUTH COALFI ELD; HUON PINE; LAGAROSTROBUS FRANKLINII; LITHOFACIES; NEW ZEALAND; PALEO CHANNEL; PALEOMIRE; PAPAROA COAL MEASURES; PHYLLOCLADDIDITES MAWSONII; STACKED MIRES; SYNDEPOSITIONAL FAULTS;

COAL;

ACCUMULATION; ASH; BIOMASS; COAL; COAL MEASURES; CRETACEOUS; FAULT; FAULTING; LITHOFACIES; MIRE; PEAT; SANDSTONE; SEDIMENT; SUBSIDENCE;

NEW ZEALAND;

GLEICHENIA; GYMNOSPERMAE; LAGAROSTROBOS FRANKLINII;

EID: 40649111020     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2006.2399(13)     Document Type: Article

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