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- Subject: Science
- AS: AS90767
- Level: 2
- Credits: 3
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Science 2.5 Describe New Zealand’s geological history
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- Geological processes include:
- plate tectonics (subduction and plate spreading)
- mountain-building events (called orogenies)
- peneplanation (the geological process of erosion of a more or less level land surface undisturbed by crustal movements).
- New Zealand’s geological events are limited to:
- pre-Gondwanaland events
- breakup of Gondwanaland
- Tuhua, Rangitata, and Kaikoura orogenies and their associated rock types
- tertiary peneplanation
- ice ages.
A wealth of information about New Zealand’s geological time can be found here.
