Tectonic history of northern New Caledonian Basin from deep offshore seismic reflection: Relation to late Eocene obduction in New Caledonian, southwest Pacific

Tectonics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Collot, Julien ^a,b   Geli, Louis ^a   Lafoy, Yves ^b   Vially, Roland ^c   Cluzel, Dominique ^d   Klingelhoefer, Frauke ^a   Nouzé, Hervé ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b Institut des Sciences Exactes et Appliquées   (New Caledonia)

^c IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT; DEFORMATION; EOCENE; OBDUCTION; OLIGOCENE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

LORD HOWE RISE; LOYALTY ISLANDS; MELANESIA; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 62149128652     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008TC002263     Document Type: Article

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