High-level stratigraphic scheme for New Zealand rocks

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 402-419

  Mortimer, N ^a   Rattenbury, M S ^a   King, P R ^a   Bland, K J ^a   Barrell, D J A ^a   Bache, F ^a   Begg, J G ^a   Campbell, H J ^a   Cox, S C ^a   Crampton, J S ^a   Edbrooke, S W ^a   Forsyth, P J ^a   Johnston, M R ^b   Jongens, R ^a   Lee, J M ^a   Leonard, G S ^a   Raine, J I ^a   Skinner, D N B ^a   Timm, C ^a   Townsend, D B ^a   Tulloch, A J ^a   Turnbull, I M ^a   Turnbull, R E ^a   more..

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Igneous rocks; Metamorphic rocks; New Zealand; Sedimentary rocks; Stratigraphy; Tectonics; Zealandia

Indexed keywords

CAMBRIAN; CONTINENTAL CRUST; HOLOCENE; IGNEOUS ROCK; METAMORPHIC ROCK; PASSIVE MARGIN; PLATE CONVERGENCE; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TECTONOSTRATIGRAPHY;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84911974482     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288306.2014.946062     Document Type: Article

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