Reactivation of tectonics, crustal underplating, and uplift after 60 Myr of passive subsidence, Raukumara Basin, Hikurangi-Kermadec fore arc, New Zealand: Implications for global growth and recycling of continents

Tectonics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Sutherland, Rupert ^a   Stagpoole, Vaughan ^a   Uruski, Christopher ^a   Kennedy, Callum ^b   Bassett, Daniel ^c   Henrys, Stuart ^a   Scherwath, Martin ^d   Kopp, Heidrun ^d   Field, Brad ^a   Toulmin, Suzannah ^a   Barker, Daniel ^a   Bannister, Stephen ^a   Davey, Fred ^a   Stern, Timothy ^c   Flueh, Ernst R ^d  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d Ministry of Economic Development   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ROCKS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; FORE-ARC BASIN; GLOBAL ESTIMATE; GLOBAL GROWTH; INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; LATE CRETACEOUS; NEO GENES; NEW ZEALAND; NORMAL FAULTS; OCEANIC CRUST; ONSHORE GEOLOGY; OVERLYING STRATA; PALEOGENE; PARTICLE PATHS; SEISMIC REFLECTION AND REFRACTION DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTIONS; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SUBDUCTION INITIATION; SUBDUCTION THRUST; SUBMARINE LANDSLIDES; UNDERPLATING; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION; VOLCANIC INTRUSIONS;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EMPLACEMENT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOREARC BASIN; MOHO; PALEOGENE; PASSIVE MARGIN; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC REFRACTION; SUBDUCTION; SUBSIDENCE; UNDERPLATING;

HIKURANGI; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; NORTHLAND;

EID: 77954353989     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008TC002356     Document Type: Article

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