Investigation of the spatio-temporal relationship between normal faulting and arc volcanism on million-year time scales

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 170, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 951-962

  Giba, M ^a   Walsh, J J ^a   Nicol, A ^b   Mouslopoulou, V ^c   Seebeck, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIGRATION HISTORY; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS; SPATIOTEMPORAL EVOLUTION; SUBMARINE VOLCANISM; VERTICAL-AXIS ROTATION; VOLCANIC ACTIVITIES;

SUBMARINES; VOLCANOES;

FAULTING;

NORMAL FAULT; PLATE CONVERGENCE; PRESERVATION; RIFTING; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SUBDUCTION; SUBMARINE VOLCANO; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; VOLCANISM;

NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; TARANAKI BASIN;

EID: 84886417800     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/jgs2012-121     Document Type: Article

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