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The geology of the Torlesse Complex along the Wellington area coast, North Island, New Zealand

Neil H. Suneson Oklahoma Geological Survey, Sarkeys Energy Center, The University of Oklahoma, 100 East Boyd Street, Room N‐131, Norman, Oklahoma, 73019, U.S.A.
Pages 369-384 | Received 02 Dec 1992, Accepted 03 May 1993, Published online: 23 Mar 2010

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Marc-André Brideau, Christopher I. Massey, Jonathan M. Carey & Barbara Lyndsell. (2022) Geomechanical characterisation of discontinuous greywacke from the Wellington region based on laboratory testing. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 65:2, pages 265-282.
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CJ Adams, N Mortimer, HJ Campbell & WL Griffin. (2011) Recognition of the Kaweka Terrane in northern South Island, New Zealand: preliminary evidence from Rb–Sr metamorphic and U–Pb detrital zircon ages. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 54:3, pages 291-309.
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R Grapes, H Campbell, S Eagar & J Ruthven. (2011) A history of the geology of Wellington Peninsula, New Zealand: an analysis of nineteenth to early twentieth century observations and ideas. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 41:2, pages 167-204.
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Andrea Festa, Gian Andrea Pini, Yildirim Dilek & Giulia Codegone. (2010) Mélanges and mélange-forming processes: a historical overview and new concepts. International Geology Review 52:10-12, pages 1040-1105.
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C. J. Adams, N. Mortimer, H. J. Campbell & W. L. Griffin. (2009) Age and isotopic characterisation of metasedimentary rocks from the Torlesse Supergroup and Waipapa Group in the central North Island, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 52:2, pages 149-170.
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C. J. Adams. (2003) K‐Ar geochronology of Torlesse Supergroup metasedimentary rocks in Canterbury, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 33:1, pages 165-187.
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A. L. Pickard, C. J. Adams & M. E. Barley. (2000) Australian provenance for Upper Permian to Cretaceous rocks forming accretionary complexes on the New Zealand sector of the Gondwanaland margin. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 47:6, pages 987-1007.
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C. J. Adams, I. J. Graham & M. R. Johnston. (1999) Age and isotopic characterisation of geological terranes in Marlborough Schist, Nelson/Marlborough, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 42:1, pages 33-55.
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C. J. Adams & I. J. Graham. (1996) Metamorphic and tectonic geochronology of the Torlesse Terrane, Wellington, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 39:2, pages 157-180.
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M. J. Hannah & H. J. Campbell. (1996) Torlessia mackayi and other foraminifera from the Torlesse Terrane, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 39:1, pages 75-81.
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M. J. Hannah & J. D. Collen. (1995) An occurrence of the tube fossil Torlessia mackayi Bather, 1906 from southwest Wellington, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 38:1, pages 117-119.
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C. J. Adams, H. J. Campbell, N. Mortimer & W. L. Griffin. (2019) Chapter 14 Crossing Cook Strait: terranes of the Marlborough Schist, Kapiti Island and Wellington. Geological Society, London, Memoirs 49:1, pages 323-330.
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A. Festa, Y. Dilek, G.A. Pini, G. Codegone & K. Ogata. (2012) Mechanisms and processes of stratal disruption and mixing in the development of mélanges and broken formations: Redefining and classifying mélanges. Tectonophysics 568-569, pages 7-24.
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Peter J. J. Kamp. (2000) Thermochronology of the Torlesse accretionary complex, Wellington region, New Zealand. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 105:B8, pages 19253-19272.
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A. Leverenz. (2000) Trench-sedimentation versus accreted submarine fan—an approach to regional-scale facies analysis in a Mesozoic accretionary complex: “Torlesse” terrane, northeastern North Island, New Zealand. Sedimentary Geology 132:1-2, pages 125-160.
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Katrina Marson‐Pidgeon & Martha Kane Savage. (1997) Frequency‐dependent anisotropy in Wellington, New Zealand. Geophysical Research Letters 24:24, pages 3297-3300.
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Ken–ichi Kano. (2006) Early deformation fabrics of melange in the Mesozoic Waipapa Terrane, North Island, New Zealand. Island Arc 4:1, pages 69-87.
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