Sedimentary facies and unconformity analysis of some Paleocene-Eocene sections, Marlborough and Campbell Island, New Zealand

• Main Author: Andrew, Benjamin Steven
• Other Authors: Nelson, Campbell S.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Waikato 2010
• Subjects: Marlborough; Campbell Island; Paleocene; Eocene; unconformities; climate; Antarctic; New Zealand; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/4274

Throughout the Late Cretaceous to Eocene, sedimentation in gradually subsiding basins on the passive eastern margin of the micro-continent of Zealandia recorded climatic and paleoceanographic changes in a greenhouse world. One such fundamental change in Southern Ocean circulation is hypothesised to...