Continent-Continent Collision at the Pacific/Indo-Australian Plate Boundary: Background, Motivation, and Principal Results

A Continental Plate Boundary: Tectonics at South Island, New Zealand

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-18

  Okaya, David ^a   Stern, Tim ^b   Davey, Fred ^c   Henrys, Stuart ^c   Cox, Simon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Continental margins New Zealand South Island; Plate tectonics New Zealand South Island

Indexed keywords

GEOPHYSICS;

CONTINENT-CONTINENT COLLISIONS; NEW ZEALAND; PLATE BOUNDARIES;

TECTONICS;

EID: 84952668795     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/175GM02     Document Type: Chapter

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