3D crustal-scale heat-flow regimes at a developing active margin (Taranaki Basin, New Zealand)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 591, Issue , 2013, Pages 175-193

  Kroeger, K F ^a   Funnell, R H ^a   Nicol, A ^a   Fohrmann, M ^a   Bland, K J ^a   King, P R ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Basement terranes; Basin thermal history; Continental margin evolution; Neogene; Radiogenic heat; Subduction history

Indexed keywords

BASEMENT TERRANES; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; NEO GENES; RADIOGENIC HEAT; THERMAL HISTORY;

ADVECTION; BUILDINGS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

ACTIVE MARGIN; AUSTRALIAN PLATE; BASIN EVOLUTION; CONVERGENT MARGIN; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRUSTAL THICKENING; GONDWANA; HEAT FLOW; MANTLE CONVECTION; MESOZOIC; PACIFIC PLATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL STRUCTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; TARANAKI BASIN;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 84875529883     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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