Faulting-related displacement gradients and strain adjacent to the Awatere strike-slip fault in New Zealand

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 18, Issue 2-3, 1996, Pages 321-340

  Little, Timothy A ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; DEFORMATION; KINEMATICS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STRAIN RATE;

FAULT DISTRIBUTION; FAULTING RELATED DISPLACEMENT GRADIENTS; GEODETIC STRAIN; OBLATE STRAIN; PROLATE STRAIN; SLIP VECTOR PITCHES; TRANSPRESSIVE DEFORMATION;

TECTONICS;

CAINOZOIC; DISPLACEMENT GRADIENT; STRAIN; STRIKE SLIP FAULT;

NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH ISLAND, AWATERE FAULT;

EID: 0029668326     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(96)80053-8     Document Type: Article

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