Preliminary results from a geophysical study across a modern, continent-continent collisional plate boundary - The Southern Alps, New Zealand

Tectonophysics

Volumn 288, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 221-235

  Davey, F J ^a   Henyey, T ^b   Holbrook, W S ^c   Okaya, D ^b   Stern, T A ^d   Melhuish, A ^a   Henrys, S ^a   Anderson, H ^e   Eberhart Phillips, D ^e   McEvilly, T ^f   Uhrhammer, R ^f   Wu, F ^g   Jiracek, G R ^h   Wannamaker, P E ⁱ   Caldwell, G ^a   Christensen, N ^j  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^j PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Continental convergence; Magnetotelluric; New Zealand; Seismic reflection; Seismic refraction: Seismicity

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT BOUNDARY; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; PLATE BOUNDARY;

NEW ZEALAND, SOUTH ISLAND, SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 0031818775     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(97)00297-7     Document Type: Article

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