Widespread remagnetizations and a new view of Neogene tectonic rotations within the Australia-Pacific plate boundary zone, New Zealand

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Rowan, Christopher J ^a,b   Roberts, Andrew P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIAN PLATE; MAGNETIC ANOMALY; MAGNETIC DECLINATION; MIOCENE; NEOGENE; PACIFIC PLATE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE BOUNDARY; REMAGNETIZATION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC ROTATION;

AUSTRALASIA; HIKURANGI; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; NORTHLAND;

EID: 44449123609     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004594     Document Type: Article

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