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Terranes and batholiths of Aotearoa New Zealand

This GIS dataset shows the spatial distribution of tectonostratigraphic terranes and batholiths of onshore and partly offshore Aotearoa New Zealand. The terranes are structurally bounded Early Cretaceous and older metasedimentary and igneous basement rocks, the Buller, Takaka, Dun Mountain-Maitai, Brook Street, Murihiku, Caples, Waipapa (Morrinsville and Hunua variants), Torlesse (Rakaia, Kaweka, Pahau and Waoieka variants) and Mt Camel terranes, that are intruded by the Karamea, Hohonu, Median and Paparoa batholiths. The terrane and batholith extents shown are where they occur at the surface and where they are interpreted to underlie covering Late Cretaceous-Recent sedimentary and volcanic deposits.


The dataset is primarily derived from the Mortimer (2006) publication DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70324-5

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Date (Publication)
2012-01-01
Cited responsible party
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

GNS Science

spatialdata@gns.cri.nz

Originator
Presentation form
Digital map
Name

Tectonostratigraphic terranes and batholiths of Aotearoa New Zealand

Purpose

Provides spatial geological context on older basement rocks, including their subsurface extent where they are obscured by younger sedimentary and volcanic deposits, ice and water.

Credit

Modified after Figure 2 in Mortimer, N. 2004. New Zealand's geological foundations. Gondwana Research, 7: 261-272; doi: /10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70324-5

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

GNS Science

spatialdata@gns.cri.nz

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Resource format
Name Version

ESRI Shapefile

1.0

Keywords
  • geological basement

  • batholith

  • tectonostratigraphic terrane

  • Paleozoic

  • Mesozoic

  • New Zealand

Specific usage

Subject to Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 (CC-BY). Credit GNS Science 2012 and/or the originating source Mortimer, N. 2004. New Zealand's geological foundations. Gondwana Research, 7: 261-272; doi: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70324-5

User contact info
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

GNS Science

spatialdata@gns.cri.nz

Point of contact
Spatial representation type
Vector
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Environment description

Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7600) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.1.1.3143

Description

2012

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Supplemental Information

Does not include Northland and East Coast allochthons

Reference system identifier
EPSG / 4326 / 7.11.2
Topology level
Geometry only
Geometric object type
Composite
Geometric object count
17
Distribution format
Name Version

SDE Feature Class

1

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

GNS Science

Publisher
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--samples

https://data.gns.cri.nz/tez/index.html?map=TEZ-Geoscience

E Tūhura - Explore Zealandia web map application

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Statement

The GIS dataset has largely been captured from a print-published figure in a journal publication:

Mortimer, N. 2004. New Zealand's geological foundations. Gondwana Research, 7: 261-272; doi: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70324-5

Minor variations from the original reflect ongoing reinterpretation of terrane identification and extents.

Metadata

File identifier
3ED6F16B-C090-41FD-AAA5-90697797E16A XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name

dataset

Date stamp
2025-03-10T00:02:10.398357Z
Metadata standard name

ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification

Metadata standard version

2007

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

GNS Science

spatialdata@gns.cri.nz

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