Carboniferous metamorphism and partial melting of the Greenland Group in the Jackson River valley, south Westland

• Published in: New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics
• Main Authors: Palmer, M., Scott, J., Muhling, J., Kennedy, Allen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2015
• Subjects: Greenland; Jackson River; New Zealand
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/5450; https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2014.982661

The peak conditions and timing of metamorphism have been determined for the early Paleozoic Greenland Group in south Westland, New Zealand. The Greenland Group, which is the most extensive pre-Cenozoic unit west of the Alpine Fault in Westland, is dominated by greenschist facies greywacke and argill...