Provenance analysis of the Late Cretaceous to Paleocene Rakopi, North Cape, and Farewell formations, northwest Nelson, New Zealand

The Taranaki Basin of New Zealand first developed in the middle of the Cretaceous as Zealandia rifted from Gondwana. Rift basins were active depocentres throughout the Late Cretaceous to Paleocene when rifting slowed. The only outcrops are located in northwest Nelson in the Pakawau sub-basin, a nort...

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Main Author: Smithies, Sarah Lynette
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: University of Canterbury 2018
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.26021/8970
https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/handle/10092/15581