Torlesse, Waipapa and Caples suspect terranes of New Zealand: Integrated studies of their geological history in relation to neighbouring terranes

Abstract

The Pacific margin of eastern Gondwanaland comprises a major Paleozoic-Mesozoic mobile belt at the edge of the Australian-Antarctic Precambrian craton. Recent studies provide new insight into the provenance and locus of sediment depocentres at this margin and their subsequent movement to become major New Zealand suspect terranes (Torlesse, Waipapa and Caples Terranes) prior to Early Cretaceous amalgamation.