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- W2917751103 abstract "Abstract During the Permian to Cretaceous, Zealandia occupied a position on the proto-Pacific-facing, convergent margin of Gondwana. Subduction on this margin ceased somewhere between ~105 Ma and perhaps 70 Ma, but the timing of this tectonic transition remains controversial. Resolution of this uncertainty is important for tectonic reconstructions of the southwest Pacific and for global plate-tectonic models. Here, we revisit the problem by reference to new stratigraphic and geochemical data from the East Coast Basin of New Zealand, which occupied a position adjacent to and possibly superimposed on the relict Cretaceous subduction trench at the time subduction ceased; this basin is expected to preserve direct structural and stratigraphic evidence for or against Late Cretaceous subduction. In western parts of the East Coast Basin – the “Western Sub-belt” – a conspicuous unconformity separates undoubted accretionary prism rocks of the Torlesse Composite Terrane from younger Cretaceous “cover” units. Strata beneath and overlying this unconformity vary in age from place to place, but abundant paleontological data and published ages of detrital zircons (some reinterpreted herein), indicate that exposed Torlesse rocks are nowhere younger than ~100 Ma. Overlying Zealandia Megasequence “cover” strata are mostly younger than ~110 Ma. Between ~110 and ~85 Ma, the entire length of the Western Sub-belt reveals complex stratigraphic architecture of relatively small-scale depocentres subjected to alternating episodes of subsidence and local uplift and erosion. There is widespread evidence for compression on the Western Sub-belt over this period, although the overall amount of shortening is likely to be relatively modest. In contrast, the Eastern Sub-belt preserves a record of near-continuous and apparently simple deposition over the same interval of time. We see little and somewhat equivocal evidence for extension in either sub-belt through the Late Cretaceous. Superimposed on this general pattern, we observe discrete, widespread or basin-wide, tectonic events at 95 Ma, and within the intervals ~86–83 Ma and ~83–81 Ma, indicated by the presence of unconformities and sedimentary facies changes. Importantly, all these events can be correlated with coeval events recorded elsewhere in Zealandia, suggesting that the East Coast Basin was subject to the same tectonic regime as the rest of Zealandia and shared a common history during the mid- to Late Cretaceous. Integrating these findings with data from elsewhere in Zealandia, we argue that there is diverse evidence to indicate that subduction finished along the New Zealand segment of the Gondwana margin by 100 Ma. That said, the causes of on-going, Late Cretaceous compression in the East Coast Basin and in other parts of Zealandia are not well constrained, although several possible explanations are plausible. There are few analogue, abandoned subduction margins described in the literature; however, the situation in the South Shetland Trench shows strong similarities with patterns and complexities observed in the East Coast Basin." @default.
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- W2917751103 date "2019-06-01" @default.
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- W2917751103 title "Cretaceous termination of subduction at the Zealandia margin of Gondwana: The view from the paleo-trench" @default.
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