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The article discusses study on the application of crustal balancing for plate-tectonic reconstruction of Zealandia. It introduces an approach to plate-tectonic reconstructions by applying crustal balancing method that considers continental rifting and extension at plate and micro-plate boundaries. It examines the history of the New Caledonia Basin and its thinned continental crust and partly oceanic crust. It explores the use of the crustal thickness grid as a basis to compute rotation parameters where a constant crustal thickness was applied in a region before its extension.