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Biostratigraphic and Geological Significance of Miocene-Pliocene Volcanism in Fiji

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Dating of Fijian volcanic rocks enables an estimate of 4.9±0.4×106 yr to be made for the age of the Miocene–Pliocene boundary. The change in composition of the volcanism in Fiji between about 5 and 6×106 yr ago may result from migration of the site of subduction.

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GILL, J., McDOUGALL, I. Biostratigraphic and Geological Significance of Miocene-Pliocene Volcanism in Fiji. Nature 241, 176–180 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/241176a0

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