The tectonic history of New Zealand

Stratigraphy, facies, structure, and setting of the Waiheke and Manaia Hill Groups, east Auckland

“…Furthermore, although Triassic sedimentary rock is now exposed in the core of the Te Puroa Geanticline, it is unlikely to have been exposed during the upper Jurassic because no Triassic pebbles have been found in the nearby Puaroan conglomerates within the Kawhia Miogeosyncline. This major eastern geanticline has been called the "schist axis of elevation" by Grindley (1957) and the New Zealand Geanticline by Kingma (1959), but is here renamed the Bay of Plenty Geanticline, because Grindley's (1957) prior usage of New Zealand Geanticline differs from that of Kingma's. …”

Lithology and eruptive history of the Whakamaru ignimbrites in the Maraetai area of the Taupo volcanic zone, New Zealand

“…Ignimbrite volcanism in the Taupo province coincided with the more active phases of the Kaikoura Diastrophism, the period of Late TertiaryQuaternary mountain building which, according to Kingma (1959), has led to the present relief of the North Island. Surface deformation has been expressed dominantly by transcurrent faulting along a longitudinal, north-east-trending mobile belt (Wellman, 1955).…”

A historical survey of the pre-cretaceous geology of New Zealand

“…He proposed that it had been driven south-westwards with a rolling up of sediments over Paleozoic the Mesozoic rocks. Kingma (1959) in adopting this idea, suggested that tectonic transport occurred parallel to the b axis in the Southern Alps and perpendicular to it in the Otago schists, causing severe stretching along the Alps and severe microfolding and little stretching in Otago, with several deformations, probably reaching their maximum in late Cretaceous. However, Wood (1956) in the Gore bulletin stated that there is no major thrust fault south of the Otago schist, although a low-angle fault occurs away from the schist boundary, dividing the Tuapeka (Chlorite 2) from the Permian Waipahi Group.…”

“…Some of the work fits into the mould prescribed before the war, with petrofabric studies of olivine crystals from Dun Mountain by Battey (1960), in which the orientation is considered to have been controlled by regional folding, details of talc in North-west Nelson 1943), the description of greenstone, the chemical and modal composition of dunite, the study of sodiumrnetasomatised argillite inclusions in the ultramafites by Reed (1957c ;1959a, b;, the assertion of a Cretaceous intruded origin along a thrust by Macpherson (1946) and Kingma (1959) and the description of layered ultrabasic and basic intrusions (with no age given) at Bluff by Harrington and McKellar (1956) and of the Pounamu rocks by Mason and Taylor (1955). Watters recorded minerals from the amphibolites of northern Stewart Island.…”