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...

Fiji   Lau Basin     Tonga- Kermadec   Ridge    Lau- Colville   Ridge Tonga Trench Kermadec Trench Osbourn Trough Louisville Seamount Chain Hikurangi Trough...

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...

west is the South Fiji Basin whose northern bedrock is Oligocene in origin. Fiji   Lau Basin     Tonga- Kermadec    Ridge   Lau Ridge Tonga Trench Kermadec...

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...

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...

Kermadec Trench Fiji   Lau Basin     Tonga- Kermadec   Ridge    Lau- Colville   Ridge Tonga Trench Osbourn Trough Louisville Seamount Chain Hikurangi Trough...

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...

Zealand   Lau Basin     Tonga- Kermadec    Ridge   Lau Ridge Tonga Trench Kermadec Trench Ngatoro Rift Rumble V Ridge    Havre Trough South Fiji Basin Colville...

gas field, near Taranaki. Permits for oil exploration in the Great South Basin were issued in 2007. Offshore mineral resources include ironsands, volcanic...

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...

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...

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...

Caledonia Zealandia North  Fiji Basin   Hunter Fracture     Zone   Lau Basin New Hebrides   Trench     Lau   Ridge South   Fiji Basin Tonga Trench Minerva Abyssal...

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...

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...

an hydrothermally active submarine volcano located in the northeastern Lau Basin, right beside the far known West Mata volcano, which effusively erupted...

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...

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...

(2011): Active Submarine Eruption of Boninite at West Mata Volcano in the Extensional NE Lau Basin, Nature Geosciences, 10.1038/ngeo1275. Petrology...

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...

Sedimentary basins are region-scale depressions of the Earth's crust where subsidence has occurred and a thick sequence of sediments have accumulated to...

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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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)...

tubeworms of the genus Lamellibrachia closely related to those found in the Lau Basin, and clams, mussels, and various Demospongiae sponges. The saltwater clams...

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...

the Cook Islands, the composition of volcanic rocks in Samoa and in the Lau Basin may have been influenced by the Rarotonga hotspot, and some atolls and...

(2022). "Effusive and explosive volcanism on the northern Futuna Ridge, Lau Basin: A combined bathymetric, magnetic and seismic investigation". Journal...

petrologic evidence that suggests a geologic fore-arc setting similar to the Lau Basin. They base this conclusion on the presence of picrite (with back-arc-associated...