Tectonic reconstructions of New Zealand: 40 Ma to the Present

References

• Adams , C. J. 1979 . “ Age and origin of the Southern Alps. ” . In The origin of the Southern Alps , Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 18 Edited by: Walcott , R. I. and Cresswell , M. M. 73 – 78 .
   Google Scholar
• Adams , C. J. , Graham , I. J. , Seward , D. and Skinner , D. N. B. 1994 . Geochronological and geochemical evolution of late Cenozoic volcanism in the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 37 : 359 – 379 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Aitchison , J. C. , Clarke , G. L. , Meffre , S. and Cluzel , D. 1995 . Eocene arc‐continent collision in New Caledonia and implications for regional southwest Pacific tectonic evolution. . Geology , 23 : 161 – 164 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Anderton , P. W. 1981 . Structure and evolution of the South Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 24 : 39 – 63 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Audru , J‐C and Delteil , J. 1998 . Evidence for early Miocene wrench faulting in the Marlborough Fault System, New Zealand: structural implications. . Geodinamica Acta , 11 : 233 – 247 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Audru , J‐C , Delteil , J. and Cutten , H. 1997 . Evolution structurale a la transition subduction‐transpression: le faisceau oriental de Marlborough, Nouvelle‐Zelande . Tectonique , 324 ( II a ) : 41 – 48 . Academie des sciences, Paris, Elsevier
   Google Scholar
• Ballance , P. F. 1974 . An inter‐arc flysch basin in northern New Zealand: Waitemata Group (upper Oligocene to lower Miocene). . Journal of Geology , 82 : 439 – 471 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ballance , P. F. 1976 . Evolution of the upper Cenozoic magmatic arc and plate boundary in northern New Zealand. . Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 28 : 356 – 370 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ballance , P. F. 1993 . “ The paleo‐Pacific, post‐subduction, passive margin thermal relaxation sequence (late Cretaceous‐Paleogene) of the drifting New Zealand continent. ” . In South Pacific sedimentary basins , Sedimentary basins of the world 2 Edited by: Ballance , P. F. 93 – 110 . Amsterdam : Elsevier .
   Google Scholar
• Ballance , P. F. 1999 . “ Simplification of the Southwest Pacific Neogene arcs: inherited complexity and control by a retreating pole of rotation. ” . In Continental tectonics , Geological Society London Special Publication 164 Edited by: MacNiocall , C. and Ryan , P. D. 7 – 19 . The Geological Society of London .
   Google Scholar
• Ballance , P. F. , Pettinga , J. R. and Webb , C. 1982 . A model of the Cenozoic evolution of northern New Zealand and adjacent areas of the southwest Pacific. . Tectonophysics , 87 : 37 – 48 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ballance , P. F. , Ablaev , A. G. , Pushkin , I. K. , Pletnev , S. P. , Birylina , M. G. , Itaya , T. , Follas , H. A. and Gibson , G. W. 1999 . Morphology and history of the Kermadec trench‐arc‐backarc basin‐remnant arc system at 30 to 32°S: geophysical profile, microfossil and K‐Ar data. . Marine Geology , 159 : 35 – 62 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Beanland , S. 1995 . The North Island dextral fault belt, Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand. , Wellington, , New Zealand : lodged in the Library, Victoria University of Wellington . Unpublished PhD thesis
   Google Scholar
• Beanland , S. and Haines , J. 1998 . The kinematics of active deformation in the North Island, New Zealand, determined from geological strain rates. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 41 : 311 – 323 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Beanland , S. , Melhuish , A. , Nicol , A. and Ravens , J. 1998 . Structure and deformational history of the inner forearc region, Hikurangi subduction margin, New Zealand. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 41 : 325 – 342 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bergman , S. C. , Talbot , J. P. and Thompson , P. R. The Kora Miocene submarine andesite stratovolcano hydrocarbon reservoir, Northern Taranaki Basin, New Zealand . 1991 New Zealand Oil Exploration Conference Proceedings . Wellington. pp. 178 – 206 . Ministry of Commerce .
   Google Scholar
• Beu , A. G. 1995 . Pliocene limestones and their scallops— lithostratigraphy, pectinid biostratigraphy and paleo‐geography of eastern North Island late Neogene limestone , Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Monograph 10 Lower Hutt : Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences .
   Google Scholar
• Beu , A. G. , Browne , G. H. and Grant‐Taylor , T. L. 1981 . New Chlamys delicatula localities in the central North Island and uplift of the Ruahine Range. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 24 : 127 – 132 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bradshaw , J. D. 1993 . A review of the Median Tectonic Zone: terrene boundaries and terrane amalgamation near the Median Tectonic Line. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 36 : 117 – 125 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bradshaw , J. D. , Weaver , S. D. and Muir , R. J. 1996 . Mid‐Cretaceous oroclinal bending of New Zealand terranes. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 39 : 461 – 468 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Brook , F. J. and Thrasher , G. P. 1991 . Cretaceous and Cenozoic geology of northernmost New Zealand , New Zealand Geological Survey Record 41 Wellington : Department of Scientific and Industrial Research .
   Google Scholar
• Brothers , R. N. and Delaloye , M. 1982 . Obducted ophiolites of North Island, New Zealand: origin, age, emplacement and tectonic implications for Tertiary and Quaternary volcanicity. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 25 : 257 – 274 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Browne , G. H. 1995 . Sedimentation patterns during the Neogene in Marlborough, New Zealand. . Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand , 25 : 459 – 483 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cande , S. C. , Raymond , C. A. , Stock , J. and Haxby , W. F. 1995 . Geophysics of the Pitman Fracture Zone and Pacific‐Antarctic plate motions during the Cenozoic. . Science , 270 : 947 – 953 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Carter , L. , Lewis , K. B. and Davey , F. J. 1988 . Faults in Cook Strait and their bearing on the structure of central New Zealand. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 31 : 431 – 446 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Carter , R. M. and Norris , R. J. 1976 . Cainozoic history of southern New Zealand: an accord between geological observations and plate tectonic predictions. . Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 31 : 85 – 94 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cassidy , J. 1993 . Tectonic implications of paleomagnetic data from the Northland ophiolite, New Zealand. . Tectonophysics , 223 : 199 – 211 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chapman‐Smith , M. and Grant‐Mackie , J. A. 1971 . Geology of the Whangaparaoa area, eastern Bay of Plenty. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 14 : 3 – 38 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Christoffel , D. A. and van der Linden , W. J. M. 1972 . “ Macquarie Ridge‐New Zealand Alpine Fault transition. ” . In Antarctic oceanology II. The Australian‐New Zealand Sector , Antarctic Research Series 19 Edited by: Hayes , D. E. 235 – 242 . Washington D. C : American Geophysical Union .
   Google Scholar
• Clark , R. H. and Wellman , H. W. 1959 . The Alpine Fault from Lake McKerrow to Milford Sound. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 2 : 590 – 601 .
   Google Scholar
• Cole , J. W. 1979 . Structure, petrology, and genesis of Cenozoic volcanism, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand—a review. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 22 : 631 – 657 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cole , J. W. 1986 . “ Distribution and tectonic setting of late Cenozoic volcanism in New Zealand. ” . In Late Cenozoic volcanism in New Zealand , Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 23 Edited by: Smith , I. E. M. 7 – 20 .
   Google Scholar
• Cole , J. W. 1990 . Structural control and origin of volcanism in the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand. . Bulletin of Volcan‐ology , 52 : 445 – 459 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cole , J. W. and Lewis , K. B. 1981 . Evolution of theTaupo‐Hikurangi subduction system . Tectonophysics , 72 : 1 – 21 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cole , J. W. , Darby , D. J. and Stern , T. A. 1995 . “ Taupo Volcanic Zone and Central Volcanic Region—back arc structures of North Island, New Zealand. ” . In Back‐arc basins: tectonism and magmatism , Edited by: Taylor , B. 1 – 28 . New York : Plenum Publishing .
   Google Scholar
• Collot , J‐Y. , Lamarche , G. , Wood , R. A. , Delteil , J. , Sosson , M. , Lebrun , J‐F. and Coffin , M. F. 1995 . Morphostructure of an incipient subduction zone along a transform boundary: Puysegur Ridge and Trench. . Geology , 23 : 519 – 522 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cooper , R. A. and Tulloch , A. J. 1992 . Early Paleozoic terranes in New Zealand and their relationship to the Lachlan Fold Belt. . Tectonophysics , 214 : 129 – 144 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cooper , A. F. , Barreiro , B. A. , Kimbrough , D. L. and Martinson , J. M. 1987 . Lamprophyre dike intrusion and the age of theAlpine Fault, New Zealand. . Geology , 15 : 941 – 944 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cope , R. N. 1966 . The hydrocarbon prospects of the Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. Shell, BP and Todd Oil Services Ltd. EP report 64 , Wellington : Ministry of Economic Development . Unpublished open‐file petroleum report 459
   Google Scholar
• Cutten , H. N. C. 1979 . Rappahannock Group: Late Cenozoic sedimentation and tectonics contemporaneous with Alpine Fault movement. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 22 : 535 – 553 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cutten , H. N. C. and Delteil , J. 1993 . Neogene transcurrent fault displacements on the East Coast , Vol. 79A , 58 North Island, , New Zealand : Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication .
   Google Scholar
• Davey , F. J. 1982 . The structure of the South Fiji Basin. . Tectonophysics , 87 : 185 – 241 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Davey , F. J. , Henrys , S. A. and Lodolo , E. 1995 . Asymmetric rifting in a continental back‐arc environment, North Island, New Zealand. . Journal ofVolcanology and Geothermal Research , 68 : 209 – 238 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Davy , B. W. Magnetic anomalies of the New Zealand basement . 1991 New Zealand Oil Exploration Conference Proceedings . pp. 134 – 144 . Wellington : Ministry of Commerce .
   Google Scholar
• Delteil , J. , Morgans , H. E. G. , Raine , J. I. , Field , B. D. and Cutten , H. N. C. 1996 . Early Miocene thin‐skinned tectonics and wrench faulting in the Pongaroa district, Hikurangi Margin, North Island, New Zealand. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 39 : 271 – 282 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Edbrooke , S. W. , Sykes , R. and Pocknall , D. T. 1994 . Geology of the Waikato Coal Measures, Waikato Coal Region, New Zealand , Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Monograph 6 Lower Hutt : Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences .
   Google Scholar
• Field , B. D. and Browne , G. H. 1989 . Cretaceous and Cenozoic sedimentary basins and geological evolution of the Canterbury Region, South Island, New Zealand , New Zealand Geological Survey Basin Studies 2 Wellington : Department of Scientific and Industrial Research . and others
   Google Scholar
• Field , B. D. and Uruski , C. I. 1997 . Cretaceous‐Cenozoic geology and petroleum systems of the East Coast Region, New Zealand , Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Monograph 19 Lower Hutt : Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences . and others
   Google Scholar
• Gamble , J. A. , Wright , I. C. and Baker , J. A. 1993 . Seafloor geology and petrology in the oceanic to continental transition zone of the Kermadec‐Havre‐Taupo Volcanic Zone arc system, New Zealand. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 36 : 417 – 435 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gray , G. G. and Norton , I. O. 1988 . A palinspastic Mesozoic plate reconstruction of New Zealand. . Tectonophysics , 155 : 391 – 399 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hay , R. F. 1967 . Sheet 7—Taranaki. Geological map of New Zealand 1:250,000 , Wellington : Department of Scientific and Industrial Research .
   Google Scholar
• Hayward , B. W. 1993 . “ The tempestuous 10 million year life of a double arc and intra‐arc basin—New Zealand's Northland Basin in the Early Miocene. ” . In South Pacific sedimentary basins , Sedimentary basins of the world 2 Edited by: Ballance , P. F. 113 – 142 . Amsterdam : Elsevier .
   Google Scholar
• Herzer , R. H. 1995 . Seismic stratigraphy of a buried volcanic arc, Northland, New Zealand and implications for Neogene subduction. . Marine and Petroleum Geology , 12 : 511 – 531 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Herzer , R. H. and Mascle , J. 1996 . Anatomy of a continent‐backarc transform: the Vening Meinesz Fracture Zone northwest of New Zealand . Marine Geophysical Researches , 18 : 401 – 127 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Herzer , R. H. and Mortimer , N. 1998 . Miocene spreading in the South Fiji Basin? . Geological Society of New Zealand Newsletter , 117 : 10 – 16 .
   Google Scholar
• Herzer , R. H. , Chaproniere , G. C. H. , Edwards , A. R. , Hollis , C. J. , Pelletier , B. , Raine , J. I. , Scott , G. H. , Stagpoole , V. , Strong , C. P. , Symonds , P. , Wilson , G. J. and Zhu , H. 1997 . Seismic stratigraphy and structural history of the Reinga Basin and its margins, southern Norfolk Ridge system. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 40 : 425 – 451 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Holt , W. E. and Stern , T. A. 1984 . Subduction, platform subsidence, and foreland thrust loading: the late Tertiary development ofTaranaki Basin, New Zealand. . Tectonics , 13 : 1068 – 1092 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Isaac , M. J. , Herzer , R. H. , Brook , F. J. and Hayward , B. W. 1994 . Cretaceous and Cenozoic geology of Northland, New Zealand , Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Monograph 8 Lower Hutt : Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences .
   Google Scholar
• Johnston , M. R. 1979 . Geology of the Nelson urban area , New Zealand Geological Survey Urban Series Map 1 Wellington : Department of Scientific and Industrial Research .
   Google Scholar
• Johnston , M. R. 1981 . Sheet O27AC—Dun Mountain. Geological map of New Zealand 1: 50,000 , Wellington : Department of Scientific and Industrial Research .
   Google Scholar
• Kamp , P. J. J. 1984 . Neogene and Quaternary extent and geometry of the subducted Pacific plate beneath North Island, New Zealand: implications for Kaikoura tectonics. . Tectono‐physics , 108 : 241 – 266 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kamp , P. J. J. 1986a . The mid‐Cenozoic Challenger Rift system of western New Zealand and its implications for the age of Alpine Fault inception. . Geological Society of America Bulletin , 97 : 255 – 281 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kamp , P. J. J. 1986b . Late Cretaceous‐Cenozoic tectonic development of the southwest Pacific region. . Tectono‐physics , 121 : 225 – 251 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kamp , P. J. J. 1986c . Relationship of the west coast, North Island, igneous bodies to the mid‐Cenozoic Challenger Rift System and subduction of the Pacific plate. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 29 : 51 – 60 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kamp , P. J. J. 1987 . Age and origin of the New Zealand Orocline in relation to Alpine Fault movement. . Journal of the Geological Society London , 144 : 641 – 652 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kamp , P. J. J. and Fitzgerald , P. G. 1987 . Geologic constraints on the Cenozoic Antarctica‐Australia‐Pacific relative plate motion circuit. . Geology , 15 : 694 – 697 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kamp , P. J. J. , Green , P. F. and White , S. H. 1989 . Fission track analysis reveals character of collisional tectonics in New Zealand. . Tectonics , 8 : 169 – 195 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kamp , P. J. J. , Green , P. F. and Tippett , J. M. 1992 . Tectonic architecture of the mountain‐foreland basin transition, South Island, New Zealand, assessed by fission track analysis. . Tectonics , 11 : 98 – 113 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kamp , P. J. J. , Webster , K. and Nathan , S. 1996 . Thermal history analysis by integrated modelling of apatite fission track and vitrinite reflectance data: application to an inverted basin (Buller Coalfield, New Zealand) . Basin Research , 8 : 383 – 02 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kamp , P. J. J. , Whitehouse , I. W. S. and Newman , J. 1999 . Constraints on the thermal and tectonic evolution of Greymouth Coalfield. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 42 : 447 – 467 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kear , D. 1993 . Reflections on major North Island basement rock assemblages and on megafaults. . Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand , 23 : 29 – 41 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kear , D. 1994 . A “least complex” dynamic model for late Cenozoic volcanism in the North Island, New Zealand. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 37 : 223 – 236 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kimbrough , D. L. , Tulloch , A. J. , Geary , E. , Coombs , D. S. and Landis , C. A. 1993 . Isotopic ages from the Nelson region of South Island, New Zealand: crustal structure and the definition of the Median Tectonic Zone. . Tectonophysics , 225 : 433 – 448 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• King , P. R. Polyphase evolution of the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand: changes in sedimentary and structural style . 1989 New Zealand Oil Exploration Conference Proceedings . Wellington. pp. 134 – 150 . Ministry of Commerce .
   Google Scholar
• King , P. R. and Thrasher , G. P. 1992 . “ Post‐Eocene development of the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand: convergent overprint of a passive margin. ” . In Geology and geophysics of continental margins , American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 53 Edited by: Watkins , J. S. , Zhiqiang , F. and McMillen , K. J. 93 – 118 .
   Google Scholar
• King , P. R. and Thrasher , G. P. 1996 . Cretaceous‐Cenozoic geology and petroleum systems of the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand , Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Monograph 13 243 Lower Hutt : Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences . 6 enclosures
   Google Scholar
• King , P. R. , Naish , T. R. , Browne , G. H. , Field , B. D. and Edbrooke , S. W. 1999 . Cretaceous to Recent sedimentary patterns in New Zealand , Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Folio Series 1 Lower Hutt : Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences .
   Google Scholar
• Kirk , P. A. 1991 . Waipa Fault and the tectonic rotation of Hakarimata‐Taupiri block , New Zealand Geological Survey Record 43: 81 – 84 . Wellington : Department of Scientific and Industrial Research .
   Google Scholar
• Kneupfer , P. L. K. 1992 . Temporal variations in latest Quaternary slip across the Australian‐Pacific plate boundary, northeastern South Island, New Zealand. . Tectonics , 11 : 449 – 464 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Korsch , R. J. and Wellman , H. W. 1988 . “ The geological evolution of New Zealand and the New Zealand region. ” . In The ocean basins and margins , Edited by: Nairn , A. E. M. , Stehli , F. G. and Uyeda , S. vol. 7B , 411 – 482 . New York : Plenum Publishing Corporation .
   Google Scholar
• Lamarche , G. , Collot , J‐Y. , Wood , R. A. , Sosson , M. , Sutherland , R. and Delteil , J. 1997 . The Oligocene‐Miocene Pacific‐Australia plate boundary, south of New Zealand: evolution from oceanic spreading to strike‐slip faulting. . Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters , 148 : 129 – 139 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lamb , S. H. 1988 . Tectonic rotations about vertical axes during the last 4 Ma in part of the New Zealand plate‐boundary zone. . Journal of Structural Geology , 10 : 875 – 893 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lamb , S. H. and Bibby , H. M. 1989 . The last 25 Ma of rotational deformation in part of the New Zealand plate‐boundary zone. . Journal of Structural Geology , 11 : 411 – 492 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lewis , D. W. 1980 . Storm‐generated graded beds and debris flow deposits with Ophiomorpha in a shallow offshore Oligocene sequence at Nelson, South Island, New Zealand. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 23 : 353 – 369 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lewis , K. B. and Carter , L. 1994 . “ When and how did Cook Strait form? ” . In Evolution of the Tasman Sea Basin , Edited by: van der Lingen , G. J. , Swanson , K. M. and Muir , R. J. 119 – 137 . Rotterdam : A. A. Balkema .
   Google Scholar
• Lewis , K. B. and Pettinga , J. R. 1993 . “ The emerging, imbricate frontal wedge of the Hikurangi Margin. ” . In South Pacific sedimentary basins , Sedimentary basins of the world 2 Edited by: Ballance , P. F. 225 – 250 . Amsterdam : Elsevier .
   Google Scholar
• Lewis , K. B. , Carter , L. and Davey , F. J. 1994 . The opening of Cook Strait: interglacial tidal scour and aligning basins at a subduction to transform plate edge. . Marine Geology , 116 : 293 – 312 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Little , T. A. and Jones , A. 1998 . Seven million years of strike‐slip and related off‐fault deformation, northeastern Marlborough fault system, South Island, New Zealand. . Tectonics , 17 : 285 – 302 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Little , T. A. and Roberts , A. P. 1997 . Distribution and mechanism of Neogene to present‐day vertical axis rotations, Pacific‐Australian plate boundary zone, South Island, New Zealand. . Journal of Geophysical Research , 102 : 20447 – 20468 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Malahoff , A. , Feden , R. H. and Fleming , H. S. 1982 . Magnetic anomalies and tectonic fabric of marginal basins north of New Zealand. . Journal of Geophysical Research , 87 : 4109 – 4125 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Malpas , J. , Sporli , K. B. , Black , P. M. and Smith , I. E. M. 1992 . Northland ophiolite, New Zealand, and implications for plate‐tectonic evolution of the southwest Pacific. . Tectonics , 20 : 149 – 152 .
   Google Scholar
• Mazengarb , C. 1994 . Estimating actual displacement along the Alpine Fault; time for a test. . Geological Society of New Zealand Newsletter , 105 : 58
   Google Scholar
• Mazengarb , C. and Harris , D. 1994 . “ The reconstructed Mesozoic continental margin of Gondwana (New Zealand segment). ” . In Recent advances in New Zealand earth science , Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Science Report 94/24 Edited by: Nathan , S. 13 – 16 .
   Google Scholar
• Molnar , P. , Atwater , T. , Mammerickx , J. and Smith , S. M. 1975 . Magnetic anomalies, bathymetry and the tectonic evolution of the South Pacific. . The Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society , 40 : 383 – 420 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Morgans , H. E. G. , Scott , G. H. , Beu , A. G. , Graham , I. J. , Mumme , T. C. , St George , W. and Strong , C. P. 1996 . New Zealand Cenozoic timescale (1996) , Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Science Report 96/38. Lower Hutt : Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences .
   Google Scholar
• Mortimer , N. 1994 . The Marlborough Schist: terrane characterisation, terrane distribution, and schist nomenclature. Letters to the Editor—reply. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 37 : 132 – 134 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mortimer , N. 1995a . Origin of the Torlesse Terrane and coeval rocks, North Island, New Zealand. . International Geology Review , 36 : 891 – 910 .
   Google Scholar
• Mortimer , N. Triassic to Early Cretaceous tectonic evolution of New Zealand terrenes: a summary of recent data and an integrated model. Proceedings of the 1995 PACRIM Congress . Auckland, New Zealand. Edited by: Mauk , J. L. and St George , J. D. pp. 401 – 106 . Victoria : Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy . Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Publication Series 9/95:
   Google Scholar
• Mortimer , N. , Tulloch , A. J. and Ireland , T. R. 1997 . Basement geology of Taranaki and Wanganui Basins, New Zealand. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 40 : 223 – 236 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mortimer , N. , Herzer , R. H. , Gans , P. B. , Parkinson , D. L. and Seward , D. 1998 . Basement geology from Three Kings Ridge to West Norfolk Ridge, southwest Pacific Ocean: evidence from petrology, geochemistry, and isotopic dating of dredge samples. . Marine Geology , 148 : 135 – 162 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mortimer , N. , Tulloch , A. J. , Spark , R. N. , Walker , N. W. , Ladley , E. , Allibone , A. and Kimbrough , D. L. 1999 . Overview of the Median Batholith, New Zealand: a new interpretation of the geology of the Median Tectonic Zone and adjacent rocks. . Journal of African Earth Sciences , 29 : 257 – 268 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Muir , R. J. , Weaver , S. D. , Bradshaw , J. D. , Eby , G. N. and Evans , J. A. 1995 . The Cretaceous Separation Point batholith, New Zealand: granitoid magmas formed by melting of mafic lithosphere. . Journal of the Geological Society London , 152 : 689 – 701 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Mumme , T C. and Walcott , R. I. 1985 . Paleomagnetic studies at Geophysics Division 1980–1983. , Geophysics Division Report 204. 62 Wellington : Department of Scientific and Industrial Research .
   Google Scholar
• Nathan , S. , Anderson , H. J. , Cook , R. A. , Herzer , R. H. , Hoskins , R. H. , Raine , J. I. and Smale , D. 1986 . Cretaceous and Cenozoic sedimentary basins of the West Coast region, South Island, New Zealand , New Zealand Geological Survey Basin Studies 1. Wellington : Department of Scientific and Industrial Research .
   Google Scholar
• Nelson , C. S. , Kamp , P. J. J. and Young , H. R. 1994 . Sedimentology and petrography of mass‐emplaced limestone (Orahiri Limestone) on a Late Oligocene shelf, western North Island, and tectonic implications for eastern margin development of Taranaki Basin . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 37 : 269 – 285 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Nicol , A. 1992 . Tectonic structures developed in Oligocene limestones: implications for New Zealand plate boundary deformation in North Canterbury. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 35 : 353 – 362 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Norris , R. J. 1979 . “ A geometrical study of finite strain and bending in the South Island. ” . In The origin of the Southern Alps , The Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 18 Edited by: Walcott , R. I. and Cresswell , M. M. 21 – 28 .
   Google Scholar
• Norris , R. J. and Carter , R. M. 1980 . “ Offshore sedimentary basins at the southern end of the Alpine Fault, New Zealand. ” . In Sedimentation in oblique‐slip mobile zones , Special Publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists 4 Edited by: Ballance , P. F. and Reading , H. G. 147 – 170 . Oxford : Blackwell Scientific .
   Google Scholar
• Norris , R. J. and Carter , R. M. 1982 . Fault‐bounded blocks and their role in localising sedimentation and deformation adjacent to the Alpine Fault, southern New Zealand. . Tectonophysics , 87 : 11 – 23 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Norris , R. J. and Turnbull , I. M. 1993 . “ Cenozoic basins adjacent to an evolving transform plate boundary, southwest New Zealand. ” . In South Pacific sedimentary basins , Sedimentary basins of the world 2 Edited by: Ballance , P. F. 251 – 270 . Amsterdam : Elsevier .
   Google Scholar
• Norris , R. J. , Carter , R. M. and Turnbull , I. M. 1978 . Cainozoic sedimentation in basins adjacent to a major continental transform boundary in southern New Zealand. . Journal of the Geological Society of London , 135 : 191 – 205 .
   Google Scholar
• Pettinga , J. R. 1982 . Upper Cenozoic structural history, coastal southern Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 25 : 149 – 191 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pettinga , J. R. and Wise , D.U. 1994 . Paleostress adjacent to the Alpine Fault: Broader implications from fault analysis near Nelson, South Island, New Zealand . Journal of Geophysical Research , 99 ( B2 ) : 2727 – 2736 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rait , G. , Chanier , F. and Waters , D. W. 1991 . Landward‐ and seaward‐directed thrusting accompanying the onset of subduction beneath New Zealand. . Geology , 19 : 230 – 233 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rattenbury , M. S. , Cooper , R. A. and Johnston , M. R. 1998 . Geology of the Nelson area , Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences 1:250 000 Geological Map 9 67 Lower Hutt, , New Zealand : Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences . 1 sheet
   Google Scholar
• Ricketts , B. D. , Ballance , P. F. , Hayward , B. W. and Mayer , W. 1989 . Basal Waitemata Group lithofacies: rapid subsidence in an early Miocene interarc basin, New Zealand. . Sedimentology , 36 : 559 – 580 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Roberts , A. P. 1992 . Paleomagnetic constraints on the tectonic rotation of the southern Hikurangi margin, New Zealand. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 35 : 311 – 325 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Roberts , A. P. 1995 . Tectonic rotation about the termination of a major strike‐slip fault, Marlborough fault system, New Zealand. . Geophysical Research Letters , 22 : 187 – 190 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rose , R. V. Summary of Miocene to Recent conglomerate provenance and gold content and plate boundary tectonics of the West Coast region . Proceedings 29th annual conference . pp. 82 – 109 . New Zealand Branch of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy .
   Google Scholar
• Shane , P. , Black , X. , Eggins , S. and Westgate , J. 1998 . Late Miocene marine tephra beds: recorders of rhyolitic volcanism in North Island, New Zealand. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 41 : 165 – 178 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sircombe , K. N. and Kamp , P. J. J. 1998 . The South Westland Basin: seismic stratigraphy, basin geometry and evolution of a foreland basin within the Southern Alps collision zone, New Zealand. . Tectonophysics , 300 : 359 – 387 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smale , D. 1991 . Provenance changes and movement on the Alpine fault indicated by heavy minerals from Cretaceous‐Cenozoic sediments in south Westland. . Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand , 21 : 151 – 160 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smith , I. E. M. , Black , P. M. and Itaya , T. Inception and evolution of Cenozoic arc‐type volcanism in northern New Zealand . Proceedings of the 1995 PACRIM Congress . Auckland, New Zealand. Edited by: Mauk , J. L. and St George , J. D. pp. 563 – 567 . Victoria : Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy . Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Publication Series 9/95
   Google Scholar
• Sporli , K. B. 1980 . “ New Zealand and oblique‐slip margins: tectonic development up to and during the Cainozoic. ” . In Sedimentation in oblique‐slip mobile zones , Special Publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists 4 Edited by: Ballance , P. F. and Reading , H. G. 147 – 170 . Oxford : Blackwell Scientific .
   Google Scholar
• Sporli , K. B. and Ballance , P. F. 1989 . “ Mesozoic ocean floor/continent interaction and terrane configuration, southwest Pacific area around New Zealand ” . In The evolution of the Pacific Ocean margins , Edited by: Ben‐Avrahim , Z. 176 – 190 . New York : Oxford University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Stern , T. A. 1987 . Asymmetric back‐arc spreading, heat flux and structure associated with the Central Volcanic Region of New Zealand. . Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 85 : 265 – 276 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stern , T. A. and Davey , F. J. 1989 . “ Crustal structure and origin of basins formed behind the Hikurangi subduction zone, New Zealand. ” . In Origin and evolution of sedimentary basins and their energy and mineral resources , Geophysical Monograph 48 Edited by: Price , R. A. 73 – 85 . Washington, D. C : American Geophysical Union .
   Google Scholar
• Stern , T. A. and Davey , F. J. 1990 . Deep seismic expression of a foreland basin: Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. . Geology , 18 : 979 – 982 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stern , T. A. and Holt , W. E. 1994 . Platform subsidence behind an active subduction zone. . Nature , 368 : 233 – 236 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stern , T. A. , Quinlan , G. M. and Holt , W. E. 1992 . Basin formation behind an active subduction zone: three‐dimensional flexural modelling of Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. . Basin Research , 4 : 197 – 214 .
   Google Scholar
• Stern , T. A. , Quinlan , G. M. and Holt , W. E. 1993 . “ Crustal dynamics associated with the formation of Wanganui basin, New Zealand. ” . In South Pacific sedimentary basins , Sedimentary basins of the world 2 Edited by: Ballance , P. F. 213 – 223 . Amsterdam : Elsevier .
   Google Scholar
• Stevens , G. R. and Suggate , R. P. 1978 . “ Atlas of paleogeographic maps. ” . In The geology of New Zealand , Edited by: Suggate , R. P. , Stevens , G. R. and Te Punga , M. T. 820 Wellington : Department of Scientific and Industrial Research .
   Google Scholar
• Stock , J. and Molnar , P. 1982 . Uncertainties in the relative positions of the Australia, Antarctica, Lord Howe, and Pacific plates since the Late Cretaceous. . Journal of Geophysical Research , 87 : 4697 – 4714 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stock , J. and Molnar , P. 1987 . Revised history of early Tertiary plate motion in the south‐west Pacific. . Nature , 325 : 495 – 499 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stoneley , R. 1968 . A lower Tertiary decollement on the East Coast, North Island, New Zealand. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 11 : 128 – 156 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sutherland , R. 1995 . The Australia‐Pacific boundary and Cenozoic plate motions in the SW Pacific: some constraints from Geosat data. . Tectonics , 14 : 819 – 831 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sutherland , R. 1996 . Transpressional development of the Australia‐Pacific boundary through southern South Island, New Zealand: constraints from Miocene‐Pliocene sediments, Waiho‐I borehole, South Westland. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 39 : 251 – 264 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sutherland , R. 1999 . Cenozoic bending of New Zealand basement terranes and Alpine Fault displacement: a brief review. . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 42 : 295 – 301 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Thornley , S. 1996 . Neogene tectonics of Raukumara Peninsula, northern Hikurangi Margin of New Zealand. , Wellington, , New Zealand : lodged in the Library, Victoria University of Wellington . Unpublished PhD thesis
   Google Scholar
• Thrasher , G. P. 1989 . Miocene faulting in Tasman Bay, Nelson, New Zealand. . New Zealand Geological Survey Record , 40 : 49 – 55 .
   Google Scholar
• Tippett , J. M. and Kamp , P. J. J. 1993 . Fission track analysis of the Late Cenozoic vertical kinematics of continental Pacific crust, South Island, New Zealand . Journal of Geophysical Research , 98 ( B9 ) : 16119 – 16148 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Turnbull , I. M. and Uruski , C. I. 1993 . Cretaceous and Cenozoic sedimentary basins of Western Southland, South Island, New Zealand , Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Monograph 1 Lower Hutt : Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences . and others
   Google Scholar
• Uruski , C. and Wood , R. 1993 . The Hikurangi triangle and its effect on the petroleum geology of the East Coast Basin . Petroleum Exploration News , 36 : 8 – 17 . Wellington, Ministry of Commerce
   Google Scholar
• van der Lingen , G. J. and Pettinga , J. R. 1980 . “ The Makara Basin: a Miocene slope‐basin along the New Zealand sector of the Australian‐Pacific obliquely convergent plate boundary. ” . In Sedimentation in oblique strike‐slip mobile zones , Special publication of the International Association of Sedimentologists 4: Edited by: Ballance , P. F. and Reading , H. G. 191 – 215 . Oxford : Blackwell Scientific .
   Google Scholar
• Veevers , J. J. 2000 . Change of tectono‐stratigraphic regime in the Australian plate during the 99 Ma (mid‐Cretaceous) and 43 Ma (mid‐Eocene) swerves of the Pacific. . Geology , 28 : 47 – 50 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vickery , S. and Lamb , S. 1995 . Large tectonic rotations since the Early Miocene in a convergent plate‐boundary zone, South Island, New Zealand. . Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 136 : 43 – 59 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Walcott , R. I. 1978 . Present tectonics and Late Cenozoic evolution of New Zealand. . Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society , 52 : 137 – 164 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Walcott , R. I. 1979 . “ Plate motion and shear strain rates in the vicinity of the Southern Alps. ” . In The origin of the Southern Alps , The Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 18 Edited by: Walcott , R. I. and Cresswell , M. M. 5 – 12 .
   Google Scholar
• Walcott , R. I. 1984a . Reconstructions of the New Zealand region for the Neogene . Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , 46 : 217 – 231 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Walcott , R. I. 1984b . The kinematics of the plate boundary zone through New Zealand—a comparison of short‐ and long‐term deformations. . Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society , 79 : 613 – 633 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Walcott , R. I. 1987 . Geodetic strain and the deformational history of the North Island of New Zealand during the late Cainozoic . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London , A321 : 163 – 181 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Walcott , R. I. 1989a . “ Paleomagnetically observed rotations along the Hikurangi margin of New Zealand. ” . In Paleomagnetic rotations and continental deformation , Edited by: Kissel , C. and Laj , K. 459 – 471 . Kluwer Academic Publishers .
   Google Scholar
• Walcott , R. I. 1989b . The Paleogene plate boundary through New Zealand , Geological Society of New Zealand Miscellaneous Publication 43 99
   Google Scholar
• Walcott , R. I. 1998 . Modes of oblique compression: lateCenozoic tectonics of the South Island of New Zealand. . Reviews of Geophysics , 36 : 1 – 26 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Walcott , R. I. and Mumme , T. C. 1982 . Paleomagnetic study of the Tertiary sedimentary rocks from the East Coast of the North Island, New Zealand , Geophysics Division Report 189 27 Wellington : Department of Scientific and Industrial Research .
   Google Scholar
• Walcott , R. I. , Christoffel , D. A. and Mumme , T. C. 1981 . Bending within the axial tectonic belt of New Zealand in the last 9 m.y. from paleomagnetic data. . Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters , 52 : 427 – 434 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ward , C. M. 1988 . Marine terraces oftheWaitutu district and their relation to the late Cenozoic tectonics of the southern Fiordland region, New Zealand . Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand , 18 : 1 – 28 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Weissel , J. K. , Hayes , D. E. and Herron , E. M. 1977 . Plate tectonics synthesis: the displacements between Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica since the Late Cretaceous. . Marine Geology , 25 : 231 – 277 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wellman , H. W. 1973 . “ New Zealand fault zones and sea‐floor spreading. ” . In The western Pacific: island arcs, marginal seas, geochemistry , Edited by: Coleman , P. J. 335 – 348 . Perth : University of Western Australia Press .
   Google Scholar
• Wellman , H. W. 1975 . New Zealand 60 m.y. ago. . Bulletin of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists , 6 : 55 – 56 .
   Google Scholar
• Wellman , H. W. and Wilson , A. T. 1964 . Notes on the geology and archaeology of the Martins Bay district . New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics , 7 : 702 – 721 .
   Google Scholar
• White , S. R. 1998 . The mid‐Cenozoic Siberia Fault Zone (SFZ), northwest Otago, New Zealand. , 342 Dunedin, , New Zealand : lodged in the Library, University of Otago . Unpublished PhD thesis
   Google Scholar
• Wilson , C. J. N. , Houghton , B. F. , McWilliams , M. O. , Lanphere , M. A. , Weaver , S. D. and Briggs , R. M. 1995 . Volcanic and structural evolution of Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand: a review. . Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research , 68 : 1 – 28 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilson , G. S. and McGuire , D. M. 1995 . Distributed deformation due to coupling across a subduction thrust: Mechanism of young tectonic rotation within the south Wanganui Basin, New Zealand. . Geology , 23 : 645 – 648 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wood , R. A. , Herzer , R. H. , Sutherland , R. , Edbrooke , S. W. , Uruski , C. I. and Thornton , S. S. 1996a . Plate tectonic workshop proceedings . Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Science Report , 96 ( 35 )
   Google Scholar
• Wood , R. A. , Lamarche , G. , Herzer , R. H. , Delteil , J. and Davy , B. W. 1996b . Paleogene seafloor spreading in the southeast Tasman Sea. . Tectonics , 15 : 966 – 975 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wright , I. C. 1993 . “ Southern Havre Trough‐Bay of Plenty (New Zealand): structure and seismic stratigraphy of an active back‐arc basin complex. ” . In South Pacific sedimentary basins , Sedimentary basins of the world 2 Edited by: Ballance , P. F. 195 – 211 . Amsterdam : Elsevier .
   Google Scholar
• Wright , I. C. and Walcott , R. I. 1986 . Large tectonic rotation of part of New Zealand in the last 5 Ma. . Earth and Planetary Science Letters , 80 : 348 – 352 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wright , I. C. , Parson , L. M. and Gamble , J. A. 1996 . Evolution and interaction of migrating cross‐arc volcanism and backarc rifting: an example from the southern Havre Trough . Journal of Geophysical Research , 101 ( B10 ) : 22071 – 22086 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar