Paleogeography of Late Eocene to earliest Miocene Te Kuiti Group, central-western North Island, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 128-148

  Kamp, P J J ^a   Tripathi, A R P ^a   Nelson, C S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

lithostratigraphy; Oligocene; paleogeography; sequence stratigraphy; Te Kuiti Group; Waikato King Country Basin

Indexed keywords

BASIN ANALYSIS; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY; EOCENE; FACIES ANALYSIS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MIOCENE; OLIGOCENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; BASIN EVOLUTION; MAP; REVERSE FAULT; UNCONFORMITY;

KING COUNTRY; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; TARANAKI; WAIKATO; WAIKATO BASIN;

EID: 84903265458     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2014.904384     Document Type: Article

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