Four rhyolitic tuff marker beds, Lower Pliocene, Wairarapa, New Zealand
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- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
- Vol. 14 (2) , 133-138
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.1984.10418186
Abstract
Spooner Tuff, Sedd el Bahr Tuff, Missing Tuff and Hikawera Tuff are very thin water-laid tephras that mark time planes in Opoitian (lower Pliocene) sediments in Wairarapa, New Zealand, and have been dated by paleomagnetic reversal stratigraphy at 2.82, 2.87, 2.97 and 3.29 Myr respectively. The tephras are the only marker beds in a thick section of marine mudstone, and reveal a simple geological structure that could not otherwise be determined.Keywords
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