Crustal structure of the Chatham Rise and Chatham Terrace – A key of understanding the earliest separation of New Zealand from Gondwana

• Main Authors: Riefstahl, Florian, Gohl, Karsten, Davy, Bryan, Mortimer, Nicholas, Jolis, Ester
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Byrd; Marie Byrd Land; New Zealand; Pacific; Wishbone Ridge; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/46096/; https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.3a5210c9-3a38-4988-a8d3-b8274c3e405c

The submarine continental Chatham Rise extends up 1500 km east of New Zealand’s South Island as part of the continent Zealandia. During the Cretaceous it underwent a twofold tectonic history: 1) At ~100 Ma, the long ongoing subduction of the Proto-Pacific plate at the eastern Gondwana margin abruptl...