Tectonic evolution of the southwest Pacific using constraints from backarc basins

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 372, Issue , 2003, Pages 343-359

  Sdrolias, M ^a   Muller R D ^a   Gaina, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Backarc basins; North Loyalty Basin; South FIJI Basin southwest Pacific; Subduction; Tonga Kermadec Trench

Indexed keywords

TECTONICS;

BACK-ARC BASIN; MAGNETIC ANOMALIES; NORTH LOYALTY BASIN; PLATE RECONSTRUCTION; SOUTH FIJI BASIN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC; SUBDUCTION; SURFACE EXPRESSION; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

BACKARC BASIN; CONTINENTAL LITHOSPHERE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

FIJI; KERMADEC TRENCH; LOYALTY ISLANDS; NEW CALEDONIA [MELANESIA]; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST); TONGA TRENCH;

EID: 84871409593     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2372-8.343     Document Type: Conference Paper

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