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
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2012-01-01
- Cited responsible party
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role GNS Science
Originator
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Name
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Tectonostratigraphic terranes and batholiths of Aotearoa New Zealand
- Purpose
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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
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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
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role GNS Science
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Resource format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
1.0
- Keywords
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geological basement
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batholith
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tectonostratigraphic terrane
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Paleozoic
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Mesozoic
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New Zealand
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- Specific usage
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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
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role GNS Science
Point of contact
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Environment description
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Microsoft Windows 7 Version 6.1 (Build 7600) ; Esri ArcGIS 10.1.1.3143
- Description
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2012
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- Supplemental Information
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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
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Name Version SDE Feature Class
1
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role GNS Science
Publisher
- OnLine resource
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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
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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
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-10T00:02:10.398357Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19139 Geographic Information - Metadata - Implementation Specification
- Metadata standard version
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2007
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role GNS Science
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