Recognition of the Kaweka Terrane in northern South Island, New Zealand: Preliminary evidence from Rb-Sr metamorphic and U-Pb detrital zircon ages

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 291-309

  Adams, C J ^a   Mortimer, N ^a   Campbell, H J ^a   Griffin, W L ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Detrital zircon ages; Kaweka Terrane; Rb Sr dating; Sr isotopes; Torlesse Composite Terrane; Torlesse Supergroup; U Pb dating

Indexed keywords

JURASSIC; METAMORPHISM; METASEDIMENTARY ROCK; RUBIDIUM-STRONTIUM DATING; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; ZIRCON;

NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND;

RAKAIA;

EID: 80053234276     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2011.569728     Document Type: Article

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