Cenozoic distributed rotational deformation, South Island, New Zealand

Tectonics

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Hall, Lisa S ^a   Lamb, Simon H ^a   Niocaill, Conall Mac ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cenozoic; Distributed deformation; New Zealand; Orocline; Palaeomagnetism; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; PALEOMAGNETISM; TECTONIC ROTATION; TECTONICS;

AUSTRALASIA; MARLBOROUGH; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 6044264856     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002TC001421     Document Type: Article

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