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    The Lau Basin is a back-arc basin (also addressed as "interarc basin") at the Australian-Pacific plate boundary. It is formed by the Pacific Plate subducting...
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    Fiji   Lau Basin     Tonga- Kermadec   Ridge    Lau- Colville   Ridge Tonga Trench Kermadec Trench Osbourn Trough Louisville Seamount Chain Hikurangi Trough...
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    spreading centers in the basin causes the asymmetry in the magnetic anomalies. This process can be seen in the Lau back-arc basin. Though the magnetic anomalies...
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    west is the South Fiji Basin whose northern bedrock is Oligocene in origin. Fiji   Lau Basin     Tonga- Kermadec    Ridge   Lau Ridge Tonga Trench Kermadec...
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    West Mata is an active submarine volcano located in the northeastern Lau Basin, roughly 200 km (124 mi) southwest of the Samoan Islands. It is part of...
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    Kermadec Trench Fiji   Lau Basin     Tonga- Kermadec   Ridge    Lau- Colville   Ridge Tonga Trench Osbourn Trough Louisville Seamount Chain Hikurangi Trough...
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  • Lau Islands The Lau Islands (also called the Lau Group, the Eastern Group, the Eastern Archipelago) of Fiji are situated in the southern Pacific Ocean...
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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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    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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    largest are the volcanic Tonga-Kermadec Ridge, the actively spreading Lau Basin and the Havre Trough. At the southern end there is a transition to the...
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    valentón or lau lau, is a species of catfish of the family Pimelodidae and genus Brachyplatystoma that is native to Amazon and Orinoco River basins and rivers...
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    of Fiji the Australian Plate interacts in the spreading centre of the Lau Basin with the Niuafo'ou Plate and the clockwise rotating Tonga Plate under...
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    Caledonia Zealandia North  Fiji Basin   Hunter Fracture     Zone   Lau Basin New Hebrides   Trench     Lau   Ridge South   Fiji Basin Tonga Trench Minerva Abyssal...
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    an hydrothermally active submarine volcano located in the northeastern Lau Basin, right beside the far known West Mata volcano, which effusively erupted...
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    Havre Trough (category Oceanic basins of the Pacific Ocean)
    Zealand   Lau Basin     Tonga- Kermadec    Ridge   Lau Ridge Tonga Trench Kermadec Trench Ngatoro Rift Rumble V Ridge    Havre Trough South Fiji Basin Colville...
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    with minor plates and include: The Tyrrhenian Basin The Mariana Trough The North Fiji Basin The Lau Basin The most dramatic orogenic belt on the planet...
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  • (2011): Active Submarine Eruption of Boninite at West Mata Volcano in the Extensional NE Lau Basin, Nature Geosciences, 10.1038/ngeo1275. Petrology...
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    be obtained. The area is interacting with the spreading centers in the Lau Basin further to the east and southeast. The island was affected by the 2009...
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    in the southern South Fiji Basin with a pre-Miocene tectonic configuration that would have resembled the present Lau Basin and Havre Trough. The former...
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  • "U-series Isotope Data on Lau Basin Glasses: the Role of Subduction-related Fluids during Melt Generation in Back-arc Basins". Journal of Petrology. 42...
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    be found in the northeastern part of the Lau Basin. Considering its unique tectonic setting, the NE Lau Basin hosts multiple types of submarine volcanism...
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    Sedimentary basins are region-scale depressions of the Earth's crust where subsidence has occurred and a thick sequence of sediments have accumulated to...
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    Zealand population – This stock may reside in the Tasman Sea and the Lau Basin in winter and feed mostly in the South Taranaki Bight and off the coast...
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    after punk musician Joe Strummer of The Clash. Only found in the Southern Lau Basin, specifically at the Tui Mall vents sites at a depth of 1,850 m (6,070 ft)...
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    tubeworms of the genus Lamellibrachia closely related to those found in the Lau Basin, and clams, mussels, and various Demospongiae sponges. The saltwater clams...
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    Tonga–Kermadec–Taupō volcanic arc system and the Lau Basin–Havre Trough–Ngatoro Basin back-arc basin system. For the past few thousand years, Whakaari...
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    P.; Kurz, Mark D. (May 2016). "Geochemical evidence in the northeast Lau Basin for subduction of the Cook-Austral volcanic chain in the Tonga Trench"...
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    Osbourn Trough (category Oceanic basins of the Pacific Ocean)
    Fiji   Lau Basin     Tonga- Kermadec   Ridge    Lau- Colville   Ridge Tonga Trench Kermadec Trench Osbourn Trough Louisville Seamount Chain Hikurangi Trough...
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  • the North Fiji and Lau Basins. To its south west is the East Melanesian Rise and onward, deep under the present North Fiji Basin is a zone of deep earthquakes...
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    Seguenzioidea. This marine species occurs at a hydrothermal vent at the Lau Basin also off Fiji. Bouchet, P. (2012). Ventsia tricarinata Warén & Bouchet...
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