Lower Miocene geology of the Waitakere Hills, west Auckland, with emphasis on the paleontology

• Main Author: Hayward, Bruce W.(Bruce William)
• Other Authors: Dr. P.F.Ballance, Dr. P.M.Black, Dr. G.W. Gibson
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: ResearchSpace@Auckland 1975
• Subjects: Fields of Research::260000 Earth Sciences::269900 Other Earth Sciences::269901 Physical geography; Cornwallis; Lone; New Zealand; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2597

The west Northland, lower miocene, carpet-bag formation, Manukau Breccia, is declared obsolete and replaced by the Waitakere Group (new). This group is established to contain the igneous and proximal sedimentary products of the lower to mid Miocene west Northland volcanic arc and is divided into thr...