Granitoid rocks of New Zealand—a brief review

AJ Tulloch - Geological Society of America Memoirs, 1983 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT Granitoid rocks in New Zealand occur in two areas of the South Island,
separated by 450 km displacement on the Alpine Fault. Biotite and biotite-muscovite …

The break-up of a long-term relationship: the Cretaceous separation of New Zealand from Gondwana

MG Laird, JD Bradshaw - Gondwana Research, 2004 - Elsevier
After a prolonged period of convergent margin tectonics in the Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic,
resulting in terrane accretion, uplift and erosion of the New Zealand segment of Gondwana …

[图书][B] The New Zealand geological timescale

RA Cooper, FP Agterberg - 2004 - indianjournalofentrepreneurship …
The editor and coordinator of this new 284 pages study on the New Zealand Geological
Timescale, Roger A. Cooper, and his team of 22 New Zealand and foreign experts are to be …

Southwest Pacific faunal palaeobiogeography in Mesozoic and Cenozoic times: a review

GR Stevens - Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 1980 - Elsevier
The changing affinities of Southwest Pacific Permian—Jurassic benthic marine faunas
primarily reflect changes in the position of Gondwanaland relative to the South Pole, and, in …

Lamprophyre dike intrusion and the age of the Alpine fault, New Zealand

AF Cooper, BA Barreiro, DL Kimbrough… - …, 1987 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The orientations of intrusive rocks from a carbonatitic lamprophyre dike swarm and the
history of emplacement relative to country-rock schist structures are compatible with …

Investigations of an intrusive contact, northwest Nelson, New Zealand—I. Thermal, chronological and isotopic constraints

TM Harrison, I McDougall - Geochimica et cosmochimica acta, 1980 - Elsevier
In the Nelson area of New Zealand, intrusion of the Separation Point Batholith 114 Ma ago
caused thermal metamorphism in the adjacent Devonian Rameka Gabbro that allowed …

The Paparoa metamorphic core complex, New Zealand: cretaceous extension associated with fragmeotation of the pacific margin of Gondwana

AJ Tulloch, DL Kimbrough - Tectonics, 1989 - Wiley Online Library
In Westland‐Nelson provinces of New Zealand, high‐grade metamorphic and granitic
basement rocks showing mylonitic ductile deformation are juxtaposed beneath low‐grade …

[图书][B] Cretaceous felsic volcanism in New Zealand and Lord Howe Rise (Zealandia) as a precursor to final Gondwana break-up

AJ Tulloch, J Ramezani, N Mortimer, J Mortensen… - 2009 - lyellcollection.org
We report new, highly precise, U–Pb and Ar/Ar ages for seven Cretaceous rhyolites, tuffs
and granites from across Zealandia spanning a 30 Ma period from arc magmatism to …

Reconnaissance basement geology and tectonics of South Zealandia

AJ Tulloch, N Mortimer, TR Ireland, TE Waight… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We report new U‐Pb zircon ages, geochemical and isotopic data for Mesozoic igneous
rocks, and new seismic interpretations of mostly submerged South Zealandia (1.5 Mkm2) …

Age constraints on metamorphism and the development of a metamorphic core complex in Fiordland, southern New Zealand

GM Gibson, I McDougall, TR Ireland - Geology, 1988 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Fiordland, southern New Zealand, contains two primary geologic components: an
elongate core comprising high-pressure (> 12 kbar) granulite facies orthogneisses (western …