Detailed 40Ar/39Ar Geochronology of the Loyalty and Three Kings Ridges Clarifies the Extent and Sequential Development of Eocene to Miocene Southwest Pacific …

PB Gans, N Mortimer, M Patriat… - Geochemistry …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2015 VESPA voyage (Volcanic Evolution of South Pacific Arcs) was a seismic
and rock dredging expedition to the Loyalty and Three Kings Ridges and South Fiji Basin. In …

Absolute paleolatitude of northern Zealandia from the middle Eocene to the early Miocene

E Dallanave, R Sutherland, GR Dickens… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The absolute position during the Cenozoic of northern Zealandia, a continent that lies more
than 90% submerged in the southwest Pacific Ocean, is inferred from global plate motion …

The Norfolk ridge: A proximal record of the Tonga‐Kermadec subduction initiation

J Collot, R Sutherland, S Etienne… - Geochemistry …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Norfolk Ridge bounds the northeastern edge of the continent of Zealandia and is proximal to
where Cenozoic Tonga‐Kermadec subduction initiation occurred. We present and analyze …

Towards a tectonic framework for normal faults in Waitematā Group rocks, North Island, Aotearoa-New Zealand

KJ Jennings, JD Muirhead, KB Spörli… - New Zealand Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Analyses of active and past normal fault behaviour in extensional settings provide key
insights into regional-scale tectonic processes driven by plate boundary forces. To better …