New Caledonia: Geology, Geodynamic Evolution and Mineral Resources
Product code: M0051
Print publication date: 07/07/2020
Geological Society of London, GSL Memoirs, Earth Structure Processes and Tectonics, Tectonics
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781786204660
Author/Edited by: Edited by P. Maurizot and N. Mortimer
Weight: 1.3kg
Number of pages: 284
Online publication date: 15/06/2020
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/mem/51/1
£120.00
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Memoir 51
This memoir summarizes the current knowledge of New Caledonia’s geology, geodynamic evolution, and mineral resources, based on published and unpublished information. It comprises 10 research papers, each addressing a particular geological assemblage or topic. After an introductory chapter, and a review of the published geodynamic models of evolution of the SW Pacific, chapters 3 to 5 focus on the main geological assemblages of Grande Terre: the Pre-Late Cretaceous basement terranes, the Late Cretaceous to Eocene cover, and the Eocene subduction-obduction complex, one of the largest and best-preserved in the world. Chapter 6 is devoted to the Loyalty Islands and Ridge. Chapter 7 deals with the mostly terrestrial post-obduction units including regolith. Chapter 8 deals with palaeobiogeography and discuss plausible scenarios of biotic evolution. Chapters 9 and 10 provide an comprehensive review of New Caledonia’s mineral resources. The volume will interest stratigraphers, sedimentologists, marine geologists, palaeontologists, palaeogeographers, igneous and metamorphic petrologists, geochemists, geochronologists, and specialists in tectonics, geodynamic evolution, regolith, ophiolites, and economic geology.
Contributors
Maurizot, P., Robineau, B., Vendé-Leclerc, M. and Cluzel, D. Chapter 1 Introduction to New Caledonia: geology, geodynamic evolution and mineral resources
Collot, J., Patriat, M., Sutherland, R., Williams, S., Cluzel, D., Seton, M., Pelletier, B., Roest, W.R., Etienne, S., Bordenave, A. and Maurizot, P. Chapter 2 Geodynamics of the SW Pacific: a brief review and relations with New Caledonian geology
Maurizot, P., Cluzel, D., Meffre, S., Campbell, H.J., Collot, J. and Sevin, B. Chapter 3 Pre-Late Cretaceous basement terranes of the Gondwana active margin of New Caledonia
Maurizot, P., Bordenave, A., Cluzel, D., Collot, J. and Etienne, S. Chapter 4 Late Cretaceous to Eocene cover of New Caledonia: from rifting to convergence
Maurizot, P., Cluzel, D., Patriat, M., Collot, J., Iseppi, M., Lesimple, S., Secchiari, A., Bosch, D., Montanini, A., Macera, P. and Davies, H.L. Chapter 5 The Eocene Subduction–Obduction Complex of New Caledonia
Maurizot, P., Collot, J., Cluzel, D. and Patriat, M. Chapter 6 The Loyalty Islands and Ridge, New Caledonia
Sevin, B., Maurizot, P., Cluzel, D., Tournadour, E., Etienne, S., Folcher, N., Jeanpert, J., Collot, J., Iseppi, M., Meffre, S. and Patriat, M. Chapter 7 Post-obduction evolution of New Caledonia
Maurizot, P. and Campbell, H.J. Chapter 8 Palaeobiogeography of New Caledonia
Maurizot, P., Sevin, B., Lesimple, S., Collot, J., Jeanpert, J., Bailly, L., Robineau, B., Patriat, M., Etienne, S. and Monnin, C. Chapter 9 Mineral resources and prospectivity of non-ultramafic rocks of New Caledonia
Maurizot, P., Sevin, B., Lesimple, S., Bailly, L., Iseppi, M. and Robineau, B. Chapter 10 Mineral resources and prospectivity of the ultramafic rocks of New Caledonia
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