Detrital zircon records of Late Cretaceous syn-rift sedimentary sequences of New Caledonia: An Australian provenance questioned

Tectonophysics

Volumn 501, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 17-27

  Cluzel, Dominique ^a,b   Adams, Christopher J ^c   Maurizot, Pierre ^d   Meffre, Sébastien ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LA NOUVELLE CALÉDONIE   (New Caledonia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^d Direction de l'Industrie   (New Caledonia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Detrital zircon; Endemism; Late Cretaceous; New Caledonia; Provenance; Southwest Pacific

Indexed keywords

DETRITAL ZIRCON; ENDEMISM; LATE CRETACEOUS; NEW CALEDONIA; PROVENANCE; SOUTHWEST PACIFIC;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BUILDINGS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TECTONICS;

ZIRCON;

BASEMENT ROCK; COASTAL SEDIMENT; CONIACIAN; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DETRITAL DEPOSIT; MAGMATISM; PALEOZOIC; PRECAMBRIAN; PROVENANCE; RIFTING; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; TERRANE; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT; ZIRCON;

NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

CONIACIAN;

EID: 79959488960     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.01.007     Document Type: Article

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