Evolution of the Tasman Sea Basin

GERRIT J. VAN DER LINGEN, Geoscience Research and Investigations New Zealand (GRAINZ), Christchurch, New Zealand. KERRY M. SWANSON & RODERICK J. MUIR, University of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand.

• Preface, Geological aspects of the opening of the Tasman Sea; Geophysical aspects of the opening of the Tasman Sea; Tasman Sea evolution and hotspot trails; Structure and evolution of the Tasman Sea rift system (abstract); Crustal extension prior to the opening of the Tasman Sea Basin: Evidence from New Zealand granites; The French Creek Granite, North Westland, New Zealand - Late Cretaceous; A-type plutonism on the Tasman Passive Margin (extended abstract); The tectonic significance of paleomagnetic results from the Triassic and Jurassic Murihiku sedimentary rocks of the Kawhia region, North Island, New Zealand; Sedimentary evolution of the onshore Pakawau Subbasin: rift sediments of the Taranaki Basin deposited during Tasman Sea spreading; Cessation of Tasman Sea spreading recorded as a sequence boundary; When and how did Cook Strait form? Cainozoic palaeoceanographic and subsidence history of the eastern margin of the Tasman Basin based on Ostracoda; A high-resolution oxygen isotope record for the past 6.4 million years at DSDP Site 593, Challenger Plateau, Southern Tasman Sea; Oxygen isotope evidence for climatic contrasts between Tasman Sea and Southwest Pacific Ocean during the late Quaternary; A stable-isotope record for the Late Quaternary from the East Tasman Plateau; The benthic foraminiferal record of Late Quaternary glacial/interglacial cycles in core E-36-23, East Tasman Plateau; Late Pleistocene carbonate dissolution patterns in the Tasman Sea; The ‘Mid-Brunhes Climatic Event’ in the Tasman Sea; Documentation of atmospheric and oceanic circulation in the seabed of the Tasman and the Coral Sea; Podocopid ostracod dissolution - description of a new paleoenvironmental tool, with examples from the eastern Tasman Sea.