The Geology of New Zealand / chief editor, R.P. Suggate ; associate editors, G.R. Stevens, M.T. Te Punga.

On t.p.: New Zealand Geological Survey, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

VOLUME ONE -- 1. The New Zealand environment (Submarine morphology and geology of the New Zealand region ; Physiography ; Gravity anomalies ; Seismicity ; Magnetic anomalies ; Historic tectonic Earth deformation ; Recent volcanism and hydrothermal activity ; Ouline of New Zealand geology ; Floral and faunal history) -- 2. Late Precambrian -- Devonian: the early geosynclinal cycle (Palaeontology ; Southwest Nelson and Westland ; West Nelson ; Fiordland ; Stewart, Snares, Auckland and Bounty Islands) -- 3. Tectonism of the early geosynclinal cycle: the Tuhua orogeny and the New Zealand Geanticline (Geosynclinal environments prior to orogeny ; The orogeny) -- 4. Carboniferous-Jurassic: the era of the New Zealand Geosyncline (Carboniferous and PermianTriassic ; Jurassic ; Torlesse supergroup ; Haast schist group) -- 5. The Rangitata orogeny (Development of the orogeny ; Metamorphism)

VOLUME TWO -- 6. The late mobile phase: Cretaceous (Palaeontology ; Stratigraphy) -- 7. The late mobile phase: Tertiary (Palaeontology ; Stratigraphy) -- 8. The late mobile phase: Quaternary (Subdivision of the Quaternary ; Stratigraphy) -- 9. The late mobile phase: igneous activity (Cretaceous igneous rocks ; Tertiary volcanism ; Quaternary volcanism ; Volcanism & volcanic trends in the volcanic history of New Zealand) -- 10. The Kaikoura orogeny (The general nature of the orogeny The beginning of the orogeny ; The main movements ; Late Quaternary deformation) -- 11. The fossil record and palaeogeography (Interpretation of the fossil record ; Early Paleozoic ; Late Paleozoic ; Mesozoic ; Tertiary ; Quaternary)