Stratigraphy of the southern Norfolk Ridge and the Reinga Basin: A record of initiation of Tonga-Kermadec-Northland subduction in the southwest Pacific

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 321-322, Issue , 2012, Pages 41-53

  Bache, François ^a   Sutherland, Rupert ^a   Stagpoole, Vaughan ^a   Herzer, Rick ^a   Collot, Julien ^b   Rouillard, Pierrick ^b  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b Institut des Sciences Exactes et Appliquées   (New Caledonia)

Author keywords

Plate motion; Reinga Basin; Seismic stratigraphy; Southwest Pacific; Subduction; Tectonism

Indexed keywords

PLATE MOTIONS; REINGA BASIN; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SOUTHWEST PACIFIC; SUBDUCTION; TECTONISM;

SEISMOLOGY; SUBSIDENCE;

STRATIGRAPHY;

ABRASION; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; CENOZOIC; CRETACEOUS; DATA SET; DISPLACEMENT; EMPLACEMENT; EOCENE; GONDWANA; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

NEW ZEALAND; NORFOLK RIDGE; NORTH ISLAND; NORTHLAND; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84857397009     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.12.041     Document Type: Article

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