Controls on sequence stratigraphy of a middle Miocene-Holocene, current-swept, passive margin: Offshore Canterbury Basin, New Zeland

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 11-12, 2004, Pages 1345-1366

  Lu, Hongbo ^a   Fulthorpe, Craig S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental shelf; Continental slope; Multichannel seismic; New Zealand; Sediment drift; Sequence stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

EUSTASY; SEQUENCE BOUNDARIES;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; DEPOSITION; EROSION; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHIC SUBMARINES;

STRATIGRAPHY;

BASIN EVOLUTION; CENOZOIC; PASSIVE MARGIN; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

AUSTRALASIA; CANTERBURY [SOUTH ISLAND]; CANTERBURY BASIN; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH ISLAND; WORLD;

EID: 9244257821     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B2525401.1     Document Type: Article

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