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150 years of the New Zealand Geological Survey

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A Neogene structural dome in the Klamath Mountains, California and Oregon

scholarly article

A crustal model for Zealandia and Fiji

A middle-late Quaternary age for the adakitic arc volcanics of Hautere (Solander Island), Southern Ocean

A provisional structural thickness map of the Otago Schist, New Zealand

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Age and geochemistry of volcanic rocks from the Hikurangi and Manihiki oceanic Plateaus

scholarly article by Kaj Hoernle et al published December 2010 in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta

Age and isotopic characterisation of metasedimentary rocks from the Torlesse Supergroup and Waipapa Group in the central North Island, New Zealand

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An Early Miocene granite clast in a tuffisite dike at Miners Head, Great Barrier Island

An episodic Cretaceous cooling model for the Otago‐Marlborough Schist, New Zealand, based on40Ar/39Ar white mica ages

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Ar-Ar dating of K-feldspar in low grade metamorphic rocks: Example of an exhumed Mesozoic accretionary wedge and forearc, South Island, New Zealand

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Basement gabbro from the Lord Howe Rise

article by Nick Mortimer published September 2004 in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Basement geology from Three Kings Ridge to West Norfolk Ridge, southwest Pacific Ocean: evidence from petrology, geochemistry and isotopic dating of dredge samples

scholarly article by Nick Mortimer et al published July 1998 in Marine Geology

Basement geology of Taranaki and Wanganui Basins, New Zealand

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Cavalli Seamount, Northland Plateau, SW Pacific Ocean: a Miocene metamorphic core complex?

scientific article published in 2003

Chatham Schist

scholarly article

Continuation of the New England Orogen, Australia, beneath the Queensland Plateau and Lord Howe Rise

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Correlation of basement rocks from Waka Nui‐1 and Awhitu‐1, and the Jurassic regional geology of Zealandia

scholarly article by Nick Mortimer published in March 2009

Cretaceous felsic volcanism in New Zealand and Lord Howe Rise (Zealandia) as a precursor to final Gondwana break-up

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Critical-wedge theory and the Mesozoic accretionary wedge of New Zealand

scientific article published in May 2019

Detrital zircon ages in Buller and Takaka terranes, New Zealand: constraints on early Zealandia history

article by CJ Adams et al published 3 April 2015 in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Early Cretaceous greywacke from Colville Knolls, New Zealand

scientific article

Editorial

Editorial: reflections on NZJGG

scientific article published on 2 October 2017

Eocene and Oligocene basins and ridges of the Coral Sea-New Caledonia region: Tectonic link between Melanesia, Fiji, and Zealandia

scientific article published in 2014

Evidence for a pre-Eocene proto-Alpine Fault through Zealandia

scientific article published on 4 March 2018

Evidence from zircon U-Pb age spectra for crustal structure and felsic magma genesis at Taupo volcano, New Zealand

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Extensional deformation along the Footwall Fault below the Hyde-Macraes Shear Zone, Otago Schist, New Zealand

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Extent of the Ross Orogen in Antarctica: new data from DSDP 270 and Iselin Bank

scholarly article

Ferrar magmatic province rocks discovered in New Zealand: Implications for Mesozoic Gondwana geology

scientific article published in 1995

Focusing of relative plate motion at a continental transform fault: Cenozoic dextral displacement >700 km on New Zealand's Alpine Fault, reversing >225 km of Late Cretaceous sinistral motion

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Formation of systematic joints in metamorphic rocks due to release of residual elastic strain energy, Otago Schist, New Zealand

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Geology and Age of Solander Volcano, Fiordland, New Zealand

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Geology and thermochronometry of the east edge of the Median Batholith (Median Tectonic Zone): a new perspective on Permian to Cretaceous crustal growth of New Zealand

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Geology of the Permian Kuriwao Group, Murihiku Terrane, Southland, New Zealand

scholarly article by H. J. Campbell published in December 2001

Hf isotopic evidence for small-scale heterogeneity in the mode of mantle wedge enrichment: Southern Havre Trough and South Fiji Basin back arcs

scientific article

Hf–Nd–Pb isotope evidence from Permian arc rocks for the long-term presence of the Indian–Pacific mantle boundary in the SW Pacific

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High-level stratigraphic scheme for New Zealand rocks

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Hikurangi Plateau: A Cretaceous large igneous province in the southwest Pacific Ocean

scientific article

Hunter–Bowen deformation in South Percy Island, northeastern Australia

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Intraplate volcanism triggered by bursts in slab flux

scientific article published on 16 December 2020

Introduction to Paleozoic–Mesozoic geology of South Island, New Zealand: subduction-related processes adjacent to SE Gondwana

article by Alastair H. F. Robertson et al published 2019 in Paleozoic–Mesozoic Geology of South Island, New Zealand: Subduction-related Processes Adjacent to SE Gondwana

Jurassic tectonic history of the Otago Schist, New Zealand

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Late Cretaceous oceanic plate reorganization and the breakup of Zealandia and Gondwana

scientific article published in January 2019

Late Paleozoic geology of the Queensland Plateau (offshore northeastern Australia)

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Late Triassic, arc-related, potassic igneous rocks in the North American Cordillera

scientific article

Letters to the editor

Lithosphere delamination with foundering of lower crust and mantle caused permanent subsidence of New Caledonia Trough and transient uplift of Lord Howe Rise during Eocene and Oligocene initiation of Tonga-Kermadec subduction, western Pacific

article by Rupert Sutherland et al published 20 March 2010 in Tectonics

Location and migration of Miocene–Quaternary volcanic arcs in the SW Pacific region

Magma production along the Lord Howe Seamount Chain, northern Zealandia

scientific article published on 18 January 2019

Melanesian back-arc basin and arc development: Constraints from the eastern Coral Sea

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Metamorphic discontinuities in orogenic belts: example of the garnet-biotite-albite zone in the Otago Schist, New Zealand

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Metamorphic zones, terranes, and Cenozoic faults in the Marlborough Schist, New Zealand

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Murihiku Supergroup, New Zealand: Redefined

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Nd isotopic anatomy of a pebble conglomerate from the Murihiku terrane of New Zealand: Record of a varied provenance along the Mesozoic Gondwanaland margin

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New Caledonia Obducted Peridotite Nappe: Offshore Extent and Implications for Obduction and Postobduction Processes

scientific article published in April 2018

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

scientific article published on 27 October 2023

New Zealand Geological Timescale NZGT 2015/1

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New Zealand limestone purity

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New Zealand's Geological Foundations

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New constraints on the New Zealand–South Fiji Basin continent-back-arc margin

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New constraints on the age and evolution of the Wishbone Ridge, southwest Pacific Cretaceous microplates, and Zealandia–West Antarctica breakup

scholarly article

Oligocene paleogeography of New Zealand: maximum marine transgression

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Oligocene-Miocene spreading history of the northern South Fiji Basin and implications for the evolution of the New Zealand plate boundary

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Oligocene–Miocene tectonic evolution of the South Fiji Basin and Northland Plateau, SW Pacific Ocean: Evidence from petrology and dating of dredged rocks

scholarly article by Nick Mortimer et al published February 2007 in Marine Geology

On the geology of the North Island of New Zealand in the 1860s and 2010s

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Ophioliticlastic Ihungia igneous conglomerate (Early Miocene), North Island, New Zealand: evidence for an island source related to subduction initiation and deposition within a slump-generated submarine slope re-entrant

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Origin of the Torlesse Terrane and Coeval Rocks, North Island, New Zealand

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Overview of the Median Batholith, New Zealand: a new interpretation of the geology of the Median Tectonic Zone and adjacent rocks

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Paleocene MORB and OIB from the Resolution Ridge, Tasman Sea

Petlab: New Zealand’s national rock catalogue and geoanalytical database

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Petrology and structure of Permian to Jurassic rocks near Yreka, Klamath Mountains, California ⬇️

1984 thesis (Ph.D.) submitted to Stanford University by Nicholas Mortimer

Petrology of the Topfer Formation: First Triassic Gondwana sequence from New Zealand

scholarly article by Nick Mortimer & D. Smale published August 1996 in Australian Journal of Earth Sciences

Publishing your thesis

Recognition of the Kaweka Terrane in northern South Island, New Zealand: preliminary evidence from Rb–Sr metamorphic and U–Pb detrital zircon ages

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Reconnaissance basement geology and tectonics of South Zealandia

scientific article published in 2019

Reconnaissance thermochronology of southern Zealandia

scientific article published in 2015

Regional metamorphism of the Early Palaeozoic Greenland Group, South Westland, New Zealand

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Regional volcanism of northern Zealandia: post-Gondwana break-up magmatism on an extended, submerged continent

scientific article published on 16 August 2017

Relationships between the brook street Terrane and Median Tectonic Zone (Median Batholith): Evidence from Jurassic conglomerates

Rotation of ductile fabrics across the Alpine Fault and Cenozoic bending of the New Zealand orocline

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Seismic stratigraphic record of transition from Mesozoic subduction to continental breakup in the Zealandia sector of eastern Gondwana

scholarly article

Seismic stratigraphy and structure of the Northland Plateau and the development of the Vening Meinesz transform margin, SW Pacific Ocean

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Significance of Jurassic radiolarians from the Cache Creek terrane, British Columbia

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Stratigraphy of Reinga and Aotea basins, NW New Zealand: constraints from dredge samples on regional correlations and reservoir character

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Subduction of the oceanic Hikurangi Plateau and its impact on the Kermadec arc

scientific article

Taking time to twist a continent—Multistage origin of the New Zealand orocline

scientific article

Tectonic significance of ductile deformation in low-grade sandstones in the mesozoic Otago subduction wedge, New Zealand

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Temporal and geochemical evolution of the Cenozoic intraplate volcanism of Zealandia

Terrane characterisation and timing of metamorphism in the Otago Schist, New Zealand, using Rb‐Sr and K‐Ar geochronology

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Textural zones in the Haast Schist—a reappraisal

The Mesozoic terrane boundary beneath the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, and potential controls on geothermal system characteristics

article by Sarah D. Milicich et al published 23 September 2020 in New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

The New Zealand Community Fault Model – version 1.0: an improved geological foundation for seismic hazard modelling

scientific article published on 19 March 2023

The Nicola Group: Late Triassic and Early Jurassic subduction-related volcanism in British Columbia

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The mid-Cretaceous transition from basement to cover within sedimentary rocks in eastern New Zealand: evidence from detrital zircon age patterns

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The oroclinal bend in the South Island, New Zealand

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Torlesse greywacke and Haast Schist source for Pliocene conglomerates near Reefton, New Zealand

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Triassic–Jurassic granites on the Lord Howe Rise, northern Zealandia

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Ultra‐fast early Miocene exhumation of Cavalli Seamount, Northland Plateau, Southwest Pacific Ocean

scholarly article

U‐Pb and Sm‐Nd ages from the Alpine Schist, New Zealand

scholarly article published by Nick Mortimer in 2004

U–Pb geochronology of Permian plutonic rocks, Longwood Range, New Zealand: implications for Median Batholith–Brook Street Terrane relations

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Volcanoes of Zealandia and the Southwest Pacific

scientific article

Waipa Supergroup, New Zealand: A proposal

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Where and why have all the flowers gone? Depletion and turnover in the New Zealand Cenozoic angiosperm flora in relation to palaeogeography and climate

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Whole-rock geochemical reference data for Torlesse and Waipapa terranes, North Island, New Zealand

Widespread compression associated with Eocene Tonga-Kermadec subduction initiation

scholarly article

Zealandia (Including New Zealand and New Caledonia)

scientific article

Zealandia: Earth’s Hidden Continent

scientific article (publication date: 9 February 2017)

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