Evolution of the Tasman Sea Basin

Proceedings of the Tasman Sea conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, 27-30 November 1992

G.J. van der Lingen, K.M. Swanson, R.J. Muir

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040893852
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Environmental Science

Providing an assessment of the state of knowledge on the Tasman Sea Basin, this text covers an up-to-the-minute assessment of the state of knowledge on the Tasman Sea Basin. The papers deal with the geological & geophysical aspects of Gondawa break-up (opening of the Tasman Sea), including hot-spot-trails, granite emplacement, paleomagnetism & rifted-marginal basins; Paleooceanography, including atmospheric & oceanic circulation patterns; Detailed examinations of oxygen-isotope records, distribution patterns & dissolution records of marine fauna, providing new paleoclimatic & paleogeographic information relating to geologically most recent evolutionary history of Tasman Sea Basin.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Geological aspects of the opening of the Tasman Sea
• Geophysical aspects of the opening of the Tasman Sea
• Tasman Sea evolution and hotspot trails
• Structure and evolution of the Tasman Sea rift system (abstract)
• Crustal extension prior to the opening of the Tasman Sea Basin: Evidence from New Zealand granites
• The French Creek Granite, North Westland, New Zealand – Late Cretaceous A-type plutonism on the Tasman Passive Margin (extended abstract)
• The tectonic significance of paleomagnetic results from the Triassic and Jurassic Murihiku sedimentary rocks of the Kawhia region, North Island, New Zealand
• Sedimentary evolution of the onshore Pakawau Subbasin: rift sediments of the Taranaki Basin deposited during Tasman Sea spreading
• Cessation of Tasman Sea spreading recorded as a sequence boundary
• When and how did Cook Strait form?
• Cainozoic palaeoceanographic and subsidence history of the eastern margin of the Tasman Basin based on Ostracoda
• A high-resolution oxygen isotope record for the past 6.4 million years at DSDP Site 593, Challenger Plateau, Southern Tasman Sea
• Oxygen isotope evidence for climatic contrasts between Tasman Sea and Southwest Pacific Ocean during the late Quaternary
• A stable-isotope record for the Late Quaternary from the East Tasman Plateau
• The benthic foraminiferal record of Late Quaternary glacial/interglacial cycles in core E-36-23, East Tasman Plateau.
• Late Pleistocene carbonate dissolution patterns in the Tasman Sea
• The ‘Mid-Brunhes Climatic Event’ in the Tasman Sea
• Documentation of atmospheric and oceanic circulation in the seabed of the Tasman and the Coral Sea
• Podocopid ostracod dissolution - description of a new paleoenvironmental tool, with examples from the eastern Tasman Sea
• Author Index