Transition from strike-slip faulting to oblique subduction: Active tectonics at the Puysegur Margin, South New Zealand

Tectonophysics

Volumn 316, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 67-89

  Lamarche, Geoffroy ^a   Lebrun, Jean Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NICE SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS   (France)

Author keywords

Forearc; Partitioning; Tectonic sliver; Transfer fault; Transpression

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE; FOREARC BASIN; PLATE BOUNDARY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; SUBDUCTION; TRANSITION ZONE;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0034023822     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00232-2     Document Type: Article

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