Paleogeography of the Taranaki Basin region during the latest Eocene-Early Miocene and implications for the total drowning of Zealandia

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 110-127

  Strogen, Dominic P ^a   Bland, Kyle J ^a   Nicol, Andrew ^a   King, Peter R ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Late Eocene Early Miocene; Oligocene drowning; paleogeography; Taranaki Basin; tectonics; Zealandia

Indexed keywords

CLASTIC SEDIMENT; DEFORMATION; DEPOCENTER; DEPOSITION; EOCENE; FAULTING; MIOCENE; OUTCROP; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTATION; TECTONICS; TRANSGRESSION; FAULT ZONE; REVERSE FAULT; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC SETTING;

NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; TARANAKI BASIN;

EID: 84903310345     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2014.901231     Document Type: Article

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