Subaqueous eruption and shallow-water reworking of a small-volume Surtseyan edifice at Kakanui, New Zealand

Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1469-1485

  Corcoran, P L ^a   Moore, L N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS; PYRITES; ROCKS; SEDIMENTATION; VOLCANOES;

CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DEBRIS FLOWS; DENSITY CURRENTS; DEPOSITIONAL MODELS; EARLY OLIGOCENE; LATE EOCENE; LITHOFACIES; NEW ZEALAND; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SHALLOW WATERS; SHELL FRAGMENTS; SOUTH ISLANDS; THICK SHELLS; VOLCANIC FIELDS; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSITS; WAVE-INDUCED CURRENTS;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

BRECCIA; BURROW; CONTINENTAL SHELF; EOCENE; JET; OLIGOCENE; PYROCLASTIC DEPOSIT; SHALLOW WATER; TEPHRA; TUFF; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM; VOLCANOGENIC DEPOSIT;

AUSTRALASIA; KAKANUI; NEW ZEALAND; OTAGO; SOUTH ISLAND;

KAKANUI;

EID: 60849126709     PISSN: 00084077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/E08-068     Document Type: Article

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