Holocene subsidence at the transition between strike-slip and subduction on the Pacific-Australian plate boundary, Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 648-661

  Hayward, Bruce W ^a   Grenfell, Hugh R ^a   Sabaa, Ashwaq T ^a   Kay, Jon ^a   Daymond King, Rhiannon ^a   Cochran, Ursula ^b  

^a Geomarine Research   (New Zealand)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORAMINIFERAL FAUNAS; HOLOCENES; INTERTIDAL SEDIMENTS; LATE HOLOCENE; MARLBOROUGH; MODERN ANALOGUE TECHNIQUES; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC PLATES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; RADIOCARBON DATES; SEA-LEVEL CURVES; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SHAKESPEARE; TIDAL ELEVATIONS; WANGANUI BASIN;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SUBSIDENCE;

FORAMINIFERA; HOLOCENE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIOCARBON DATING; SEDIMENT CORE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION; SUBSIDENCE;

MARLBOROUGH; MARLBOROUGH SOUNDS; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 76449113344     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.11.021     Document Type: Article

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