Mangarara Formation: exhumed remnants of a middle Miocene, temperate carbonate, submarine channel-fan system on the eastern margin of Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

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Mangarara Formation: exhumed remnants of a middle Miocene, temperate carbonate, submarine channel-fan system on the eastern margin of Taranaki Basin, New Zealand

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The middle Miocene Mangarara Formation is a thin (1–60 m), laterally discontinuous unit of moderately to highly calcareous (40–90%) facies of sandy to pure limestone, bioclastic sandstone, and conglomerate that crops out in a few valleys in North Taranaki across the transition from King Country Basin into offshore Taranaki Basin. The unit occurs within hemipelagic (slope) mudstone of Manganui Formation, is stratigraphically associated with redeposited sandstone of Moki Formation, and is overl...

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Date created

2009

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Puga-Bernabéu, Ángel / Vonk, Adam J. / Nelson, Campbell S. / Kamp, Peter J.J.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/4175

Related subjects

submarine channel / temperate carbonates / sediment gravity flows / middle Miocene / Mangarara Formation / Taranaki Basin

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