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Stern, T. A., Quinlan, G. M., and Holt, W. E. 1993. Crustal dynamics associated with the formation of the Wanganui basin, New Zealand. In "South
Pacific Sedimentary Basins" (E F. Ballance, ed.), pp. 213-224, with permission from Elsevier Science.]
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