High-level stratigraphic scheme for New Zealand rocks

N Mortimer, MS Rattenbury, PR King… - New Zealand Journal …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
We formally introduce 14 new high-level stratigraphic names to augment existing names
and to hierarchically organise all of New Zealand's onland and offshore Cambrian …

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) …

An interim global bioregionalisation of Devonian areas

EM Dowding, MC Ebach - Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 2018 - Springer
We present an interim Devonian bioregionalisation in which previous zoogeographical and
biogeographical areas of Devonian taxa are reviewed. This review has been long overdue …

The longevity of Archean mantle residues in the convecting upper mantle and their role in young continent formation

J Liu, JM Scott, CE Martin, DG Pearson - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2015 - Elsevier
The role played by ancient melt-depleted lithospheric mantle in preserving continental crust
through time is critical in understanding how continents are built, disrupted and recycled …

Normal fault growth influenced by basement fabrics: The importance of preferential nucleation from pre‐existing structures

L Collanega, K Siuda, CAL Jackson, RE Bell… - Basin …, 2019 - earthdoc.org
Reactivation of pre‐existing intra‐basement structures can influence the evolution of rift
basins, yet the detailed kinematic relationship between these structures and overlying rift …

Variable sources for Cretaceous to recent HIMU and HIMU-like intraplate magmatism in New Zealand

QHA Van der Meer, TE Waight, JM Scott… - Earth and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Continental intraplate magmas with isotopic affinities similar to HIMU are identified
worldwide. Involvement of an asthenospheric HIMU or HIMU-like source is contested …

Abrupt spatial and geochemical changes in lamprophyre magmatism related to Gondwana fragmentation prior, during and after opening of the Tasman Sea

QHA van der Meer, M Storey, JM Scott, TE Waight - Gondwana Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract High-precision 40 Ar/39 Ar dating of lamprophyre dike swarms in the Western
Province of New Zealand reveals that these dikes were emplaced into continental crust prior …

[图书][B] Biogeography and evolution in New Zealand

M Heads - 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Biogeography and Evolution in New Zealand provides the first in-depth treatment of the
biogeography of New Zealand, a region that has been a place of long-enduring interest to …

Slab-triggered arc flare-up in the Cretaceous Median Batholith and the growth of lower arc crust, Fiordland, New Zealand

M Decker, JJ Schwartz, HH Stowell… - Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The Mesozoic continental arc in Fiordland, New Zealand, records a c. 110 Myr history of
episodic, subduction-related magmatism that culminated in a terminal surge of mafic to …

Composition and Miocene deformation of the lithospheric mantle adjacent to the Marlborough Fault System in North Canterbury

SJ Bonnington, JM Scott, MC Palmer… - New Zealand journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Mantle xenoliths in a nephelinite in the Little Lottery River provide insight into the Miocene
mantle adjacent to the Australia-Pacific plate boundary in N Canterbury. The xenoliths …