The Norfolk Basin is synclinal basin, partially bounded by faults, running east-northeast between the Dedham Block and the Foxborough Block. It contains...
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gas field, near Taranaki. Permits for oil exploration in the Great South Basin were issued in 2007. Offshore mineral resources include ironsands, volcanic...
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Kermadec Trench Fiji Lau Basin Tonga- Kermadec Ridge Lau- Colville Ridge Tonga Trench Osbourn Trough Louisville Seamount Chain Hikurangi...
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The Broads (redirect from Norfolk Broads)
navigable rivers and lakes in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. Although the terms "Norfolk Broads" and "Suffolk Broads" are correctly used to...
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bulbifrons, is endemic to reefs on the Lord Howe Rise and the West Norfolk Rise. Much of the basin remains unexplored in relation to oil and gas reserves. Chatham...
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Ma. To its east is the Norfolk basin separating it from the Norfolk Ridge in the Tasman Sea. To its west is the South Fiji Basin with its former spreading...
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ridges between the crust of the Pacific Basin and the continental crust of Australia. Little is known about the Norfolk Ridge; however, it generally lies about...
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flanked by two back-arc basins, the Lau Basin and Havre Trough, that began opening at 6 Ma and 2 Ma respectively. Beyound the basins is the Lau-Colville Ridge...
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into the trough as the seafloor has a number of intermediate ridges and basins. In terms of being a definite trench with two sides, this is found on the...
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Emerald Basin Fairway Basin Faust Basin Gower Basin Great South Basin Middleton Seafloor Basin Monowai Basin Moore Basin New Caledonia Basin Norfolk Basin Northeast...
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west on the sea floor is the South East Tasman Basin and to its east the Solander Trough and Emerald Basin. Technically the plate boundary becomes part...
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Emerald Basin Fairway Basin Faust Basin Gower Basin Great South Basin Middleton Seafloor Basin Monowai Basin Moore Basin New Caledonia Basin Norfolk Basin Northeast...
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granite intruded Cambrian sediments. Quartz porphyry also formed in the Norfolk Basin, which took shape due to tectonic compression in the Alleghanian orogeny...
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Emerald Basin Fairway Basin Faust Basin Gower Basin Great South Basin Middleton Seafloor Basin Monowai Basin Moore Basin New Caledonia Basin Norfolk Basin Northeast...
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Narragansett Basin Nashoba Zone Nashua trough Newbury Volcanic Zone Norfolk Basin Faults Bloody Bluff fault Clinton-Newbury fault U.S. Geological Survey...
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relationships. To its west is the South Fiji Basin whose northern bedrock is Oligocene in origin. Fiji Lau Basin Tonga- Kermadec Ridge Lau Ridge...
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Regional Geology and Tectonics: Phanerozoic Passive Margins, Cratonic Basins and Global Tectonic Maps, Elsevier, 2012, p517. Carter, L., Carter, R.M...
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the Australian plate by a long divergent boundary which forms a back-arc basin. This area is highly prone to earthquakes and tsunamis. The Pacific plate...
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Emerald Basin Fairway Basin Faust Basin Gower Basin Great South Basin Middleton Seafloor Basin Monowai Basin Moore Basin New Caledonia Basin Norfolk Basin Northeast...
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The Taranaki Basin is an onshore-offshore Cretaceous rift basin on the West Coast of New Zealand. Development of rifting was the result of extensional...
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Emerald Basin Fairway Basin Faust Basin Gower Basin Great South Basin Middleton Seafloor Basin Monowai Basin Moore Basin New Caledonia Basin Norfolk Basin Northeast...
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Emerald Basin Fairway Basin Faust Basin Gower Basin Great South Basin Middleton Seafloor Basin Monowai Basin Moore Basin New Caledonia Basin Norfolk Basin Northeast...
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Emerald Basin Fairway Basin Faust Basin Gower Basin Great South Basin Middleton Seafloor Basin Monowai Basin Moore Basin New Caledonia Basin Norfolk Basin Northeast...
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expanse of the Tasman Basin, which stretches most of the distance to Australia. To the north of the trench lies the Fiordland Basin, which can be considered...
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Emerald Basin Fairway Basin Faust Basin Gower Basin Great South Basin Middleton Seafloor Basin Monowai Basin Moore Basin New Caledonia Basin Norfolk Basin Northeast...
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Fiji Lau Basin Tonga- Kermadec Ridge Lau Ridge Tonga Trench Louisville Ridge Kermadec Trench Monowai • Havre Trough South Fiji Basin Colville...
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The Great South Basin is an area of mainly sea to the south of the South Island of New Zealand. Starting in the 1960s, the area was explored and drilled...
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added several basins as remains of this LIP event, including the north-west part of the Central Pacific, Nauru, East Mariana, and Lyra basins — submarine...
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between the South Island and the Campbell Plateau created the Great South Basin in which 8 km of sediments have since accumulated. The Bounty Trough was...
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cover much of eastern Suffolk and Norfolk and are better considered as part of the North Sea Basin. The axis of the basin runs west–east from Marlborough...
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