GPlates: Building a virtual Earth through deep time

RD Müller, J Cannon, X Qin, RJ Watson… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
GPlates is an open‐source, cross‐platform plate tectonic geographic information system,
enabling the interactive manipulation of plate‐tectonic reconstructions and the visualization …

A global plate model including lithospheric deformation along major rifts and orogens since the Triassic

RD Müller, S Zahirovic, SE Williams, J Cannon… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Global deep‐time plate motion models have traditionally followed a classical rigid plate
approach, even though plate deformation is known to be significant. Here we present a …

The Moho in Australia and New Zealand

M Salmon, BLN Kennett, T Stern, ARA Aitken - Tectonophysics, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract Australia and New Zealand share in part a history in the Gondwana supercontinent.
Australia has a long and complex tectonic history with the last major accretion in the early …

Late Cenozoic exhumation model of New Zealand: Impacts from tectonics and climate

R Jiao, F Herman, D Seward - Earth-science reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Late Cenozoic convergence between the Australian and Pacific Plates has led to extensive
crustal deformation and exhumation in New Zealand. Over the past five decades, the …

New Zealand Fault‐Rupture Depth Model v. 1.0: A Provisional Estimate of the Maximum Depth of Seismic Rupture on New Zealand's Active Faults

S Ellis, S Bannister, R Van Dissen… - Bulletin of the …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We summarize estimates of the maximum rupture depth on New Zealand's active faults
(“New Zealand Fault‐Rupture Depth Model v. 1.0”), as used in the New Zealand Community …

Two-phase Cretaceous–Paleocene rifting in the Taranaki Basin region, New Zealand; implications for Gondwana break-up

DP Strogen, H Seebeck, A Nicol… - Journal of the Geological …, 2017 - lyellcollection.org
The break-up of Gondwana resulted in extension of New Zealand continental crust during
the Cretaceous–Paleocene. Offshore the geometry and rift history are well imaged by new …

Establishing a versatile 3-D seismic velocity model for New Zealand

D Eberhart-Phillips, M Reyners… - Seismological …, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Over the past 15 years, we have developed 3-D seismic velocity models for many parts of
New Zealand through individual regional studies using local earthquake data, often with …

Pegasus Basin, eastern New Zealand: A stratigraphic record of subsidence and subduction, ancient and modern

KJ Bland, CI Uruski, MJ Isaac - New Zealand Journal of Geology …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The stratigraphic architecture of a thick (c. 9000 m) Albian–Recent sedimentary succession
within the Pegasus Basin is presented here, based primarily on interpretation of the New …

The central role of the Hikurangi Plateau in the Cenozoic tectonics of New Zealand and the Southwest Pacific

M Reyners - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2013 - Elsevier
Recent work involving relocation of New Zealand seismicity using a nationwide 3-D seismic
velocity model has located the subducted western edge of the Hikurangi Plateau. Both the …

Paleogeography of the Taranaki Basin region during the latest Eocene–Early Miocene and implications for the 'total drowning'of Zealandia

DP Strogen, KJ Bland, A Nicol… - New Zealand Journal of …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Latest Eocene–earliest Miocene strata in the subsurface of the Taranaki Basin provide
important new regional paleogeographic and tectonic constraints not available from outcrop …