FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Map helps unravel complexities of the southwestern Pacific Ocean BT AF Collot, Julien Vendé-Leclerc, Myriam Rouillard, Pierrick Lafoy, Yves Géli, Louis AS 1:1;2:1;3:1;4:1;5:2; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:PDG-REM-GM-LGG; C1 Geological Survey of New Caledonia, Direction de l’Industrie, des Mines et de l’Énergie de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, New Caledonia Department of Geodynamics and Geophysics, Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer, Brest, France C2 DIMENC, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-REM-GM-LGG TC 0 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00297/40776/39785.pdf LA English DT Article CR ZONECO11 ZONECO5 BO L'Atalante AB The southwestern Pacific Ocean region hosts submerged continental margins, ridges, sedimentary basins, and volcanic arcs located around Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji. The geological history of this vast region has remained controversial, and to improve understanding of the processes that controlled its geodynamical evolution, it is essential to place each piece of available data in a regional spatiotemporal framework. To this end, a new map, entitled “Structural Provinces of the Southwest Pacific,” was released by the Geological Survey of New Caledonia in May 2011. The publication consists of two parts: (1) a 40-page booklet of geological notes, which documents the nature and age of each structure and contains an associated list of references; and (2) a 3- x 4-foot poster of a structural map revealing the nature of the basement, location, and type of the main structural features (see simplified version in Figure 1) and the age of formation using the international standards for geological color codes established by the Commission for the Geological Map of the World (CGMW) (see http://ccgm.free.fr/index.html). PY 2012 PD JAN SO Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union SN 0096-3941 PU Wiley-Blackwell VL 93 IS 1 BP 1 EP 2 DI 10.1029/2012EO010001 ID 40776 ER EF