Paleomagnetic constraints on Cenozoic deformation along the northwest margin of the Pacific-Australian plate boundary zone through New Zealand

Tectonics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Turner, Gillian M ^a   Michalk, Daniel M ^a   Little, Timothy A ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ROTATION;

ALPINE FAULTS; CENOZOIC; CLOCKWISE ROTATION; COHERENT BLOCKS; MARLBOROUGH; NEW ZEALAND; OROCLINE; PACIFIC PLATES; PALEOGENE; PALEOMAGNETIC DATA; PALEOZOIC; PLATE BOUNDARIES; RIGID BLOCK; ROTATIONAL DEFORMATION; SEDIMENTARY STRATA; SOUTH ISLAND; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION;

DEFORMATION;

AUSTRALIAN PLATE; CENOZOIC; DEFORMATION; GONDWANA; PACIFIC PLATE; PALEOMAGNETISM; PLATE BOUNDARY; POLAR WANDERING; RHEOLOGY;

HIKURANGI MARGIN; MARLBOROUGH; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 84856558603     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC002931     Document Type: Article

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