Motion and rigidity of the Pacific Plate and implications for plate boundary deformation

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 107, Issue 10, 2002, Pages

  Beavan, J ^a   Tregoning, P ^b   Bevis, M ^c   Kato, T ^d   Meertens, C ^e  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

Pacific plate motion; Plate boundary deformation; Plate rigidity

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; PACIFIC PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; RIGIDITY;

EID: 0037058220     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Adams, R. D., and R. J. Kean, The Dunedin earthquake, 9 April 1974, part 1, Seismological studies, Bull. N. Z. Natl. Soc. Earthquake Eng., 7, 115-122, 1974.
2. Altamimi, Z., P. Sillard, and P. Boucher, ITRF2000: A new release of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame for earth science applications, J. Geophys. Res., 107(B10), 2214, 10.1029/2001JB000561, 2002.
3. Argus, D. F., and R. G. Gordon, No-Net-Rotation model of current plate velocities incorporating plate motion model NUVEL-1, Geophys. Res. Lett., 18, 2039-2042, 1991.
4. Atwater, T., and J. Stock, Pacific-North America plate tectonics of the Neogene southwestern United States: An update, Int. Geol. Rev., 40, 375-402, 1998.
5. Batt, G. E., and J. Braun, The tectonic evolution of the Southern Alps, New Zealand: Insights from fully thermally coupled dynamical modelling, Geophys. J. Int., 136, 403-420, 1999.
6. Beavan, J., and J. Haines. Contemporary horizontal velocity and strain rate fields of the Pacific-Australian plate boundary zone through New Zealand, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 741-770, 2001.
7. Beavan, J., et al., Crustal deformation during 1994-1998 due to oblique continental collision in the central Southern Alps, New Zealand, and implications for seismic potential of the Alpine Fault, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 25,233-25,255, 1999.
8. Bennett, J., W. Rodi, and R. E. Reilinger, Global Positioning System constraints on fault slip rates in southern California and northern Baja, Mexico, J. Geophys. Res., 101, 21,943-21,960, 1996.
9. Berryman, K. R., Active faulting and derived PHS directions in the South Island, NZ, Bull. R. Soc. N. Z., 18, 29-34, 1979.
10. Bevis, M., et al., Geodetic observations of very rapid convergence and back-arc extension at the Tonga arc, Nature, 374, 249-251, 1995.
11. Boucher, C., Z. Altamimi, P. Sillard, The ITRF97 International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF97), Int. Earth Rotation Serv. Tech. Note 27, Obs. de Paris, Paris, 1999.
12. Bourne, S. J., T. Arnadottir, J. Beavan, D. Darby, P. C. England, B. Parsons, R. I. Walcott, and P. R. Wood, Crustal deformation of the Marlborough fault zone in the South Island of New Zealand: Geodetic constraints over the interval 1982-1994, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 30,147-30,165, 1998.
13. Campbell, H. J., et al., Cretaceous-Cenozoic Geology and Biostratigraphy of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand, Monograph, vol. 2, Inst. Geol. Nuclear Sci., Lower Hutt, New Zealand, 269 pp., 1993.
14. Cande, S. C., and D. V. Kent, Revised geomagnetic polarity timescale, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 6093-6095, 1995.
15. Cande, S. C., C. A. Raymond, J. Stock, and W. F. Haxby, Geophysics of the Pitman Fracture Zone and Pacific-Antarctic plate motions during the Cenozoic, Science, 270, 947-953, 1995.
16. Darby, D. J., and J. Beavan, Evidence from GPS measurements for contemporary plate coupling on the southern Hikurangi subduction thrust and for partitioning of strain in the upper plate, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 30,881-30,892, 2001.
17. DeMets, C., and T. H. Dixon, New kinematic models for Pacific-North America motion from 3 Ma to present, 1, Evidence for steady motion and biases in the NUVEL-1A model, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 1921-1924, 1999.
18. DeMets, C., R. G. Gordon, D. F. Argus, and S. Stein, Effect of recent revisions to the geomagnetic reversal time scale on estimates of current plate motions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21, 2191-2194, 1994.
19. Dixon, T. H., A. Mao, and S. Stein, How rigid is the stable interior of the North American plate?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 3035-3038, 1996.
20. Dixon, T., F. Farina, C. DeMets, F. Suarez-Vidal, J. Fletcher, B. Marquez-Azua, M. Miller, O. Sanchez, and P. Umhoefer, New Kinematic Models for Pacific-North America Motion from 3 Ma to Present: Evidence for a "Baja California shear zone", Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 3961-3964, 2000.
21. Dong, D., T. A. Herring, and R. W. King, Estimating regional deformation from a combination of space and terrestrial geodetic data, J. Geod., 72, 200-214, 1998.
22. Ekstrom, G., and B. Romanowicz, The 23 May 1989 Macquarie Ridge earthquake: A very broad band analysis, Geophys. Res. Lett., 17, 993-996, 1990.
23. Feigl, K., et al., Space geodetic measurements of crustal deformation in central and southern California, 1984-1992, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 21,677-21,712, 1993.
24. Freymueller, J. T., M. H. Murray, P. Segall, and D. Castillo, Kinematics of the Pacific-North America plate boundary zone, northern California, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 7419-7441, 1999.
25. Herring, T. A., GLOBK global Kalman filter VLBI and GPS analysis program, version 4.1, Mass. Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, 1999.
26. Johnson, H. O., and D. C. Agnew, Correlated noise in geodetic time series. final technical report to USGS. U.S. Geol. Surv., Menlo Park, Calif., 2000.
27. Johnstone, T., A seismic reflection investigation of the extent and geometry of recent northeast-trending faults on the Otago shelf, M. Sc. thesis, Univ. of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1990.
28. Kato, T., et al., Initial results from WING, the continuous GPS network in the western Pacific region, Geophys. Res. Lett., 25, 369-372, 1998.
29. King, R. W., and Y. Bock, Documentation for the GAMIT GPS analysis software, release 9.6, Mass. Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, 1999.
30. Knuepfer, P. L. K., Temporal variations in latest Quaternary slip across the Australian-Pacific plate boundary, northeastern South Island, New Zealand, Tectonics, 11, 449-464, 1992.
31. Kogan, M. G., et al., Geodetic constraints on the rigidity and relative motion of Eurasia and North America, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 2041-2044, 2000.
32. Langbein, J., and H. Johnson, Correlated errors in geodetic time series: Implications for time-dependent deformation, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 591-604, 1997.
33. Larson, K. M., J. T. Freymueller, and S. Philipsen, Global plate velocities from the Global Positioning System, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 9961-9981, 1997.
34. Levitt, D. A., and D. T. Sandwell, Modal depth anomalies from multibeam bathymetry: Is there a South Pacific superswell?, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 139, 1-16, 1996.
35. Litchfield, N. J., and R. J. Norris, Holocene motion on the Akatore Fault, south Otago coast, New Zealand, N. Z. J. Geol. Geophys., 43, 405-424, 2000.
36. Ma, C., J. M. Sauber, L. J. Bell, T. A. Clark, D. Gordon, W. E. Himwich, and J. W. Ryan, Measurement of horizontal motions in Alaska using very long baseline interferometry, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 21,991-22,011, 1990.
37. Ma, C., et al., Goddard Space Flight Center VLBI annual report, Goddard Space Flight Cent., Greenbelt, Md., 1995.
38. Mao, A., C. G. A. Harrison, and T. H. Dixon, Noise in GPS coordinate time series, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 2797-2816, 1999.
39. McClusky, S., et al., Global Positioning System constraints on plate kinematics and dynamics in the eastern Mediterranean and Caucasus, J. Geophys. Res., 105, 5695-5719, 2000.
40. McNutt, M. K., and K. M. Fischer, The South Pacific Superswell, in Seamounts, Islands and Atolls, Geophys. Monogr. Ser., vol. 43, edited by B. H. Keating, pp. 25-34, AGU, Washington, D. C., 1987.
41. Pearson, C., P. Denys, and K. Hodgkinson, Geodetic constraints on the kinematics of the Alpine fault in the southern South Island of New Zealand, using results from the Hawea-Haast GPS transect, Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 1319-1322, 2000.
42. Peltier, W. R., Ice-age paleotopography, Science, 265, 195-201, 1994.
43. Pollitz, F., Gravitational viscoelastic postseismic relaxation on a layered spherical Earth, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 17,921, 1997.
44. Satake, K., and H. Kanamori, Fault parameters and tsunami excitation of the May 23, 1989, Macquarie Ridge earthquake, Geophys, Res. Lett., 17, 997-1000, 1990.
45. Savage, J. C., and R. O. Burford, Geodetic determination of relative plate motion in central California, J. Geophys. Res., 78, 832-845, 1973.
46. Savage, J. C., and M. Lisowski, Viscoelastic coupling model of the San Andreas fault along the Big Bend, southern California, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 7281-7292, 1998.
47. Savage, J. C., J. L. Svarc, and W. H. Prescott, Geodetic estimates of fault slip rates in the San Francisco Bay area, J. Geophys. Res., 104, 4995-5002, 1999.
48. Spitzak, S., and C. DeMets, Constraints on present-day plate motions south of 30°S from satellite altimetry. Tectonophysics, 253, 167-208, 1996.
49. Taylor, F. W., et al., Geodetic measurements of convergence at the New Hebrides island are indicate are fragmentation caused by an impinging aseismic ridge, Geology, 23, 1011-1014, 1995.
50. Tregoning, P., Is the Australian Plate deforming? A space geodetic perspective, joint special publication, Geol. Soc. of Aust. and Geol. Soc. of Am., Boulder, Colo., in press, 2002a.
51. Tregoning, P., Plate kinematics in the Western Pacific derived from geodetic observations, J. Geophys. Res., 107, XXXX, doi:2001JB000406, 2002b.
52. Tregoning, P., et al., Estimation of current plate motions in Papua New Guinea from Global Positioning System observations, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 12,181-12,203, 1998.
53. Walcott, R. I., Modes of oblique compression: Late Cenozoic tectonics of the South Island of New Zealand, Rev. Geophys., 36, 1-36, 1998.
54. Wahr, J., T. van Dam, K. Larson, and O. Francis, Geodetic measurements in Greenland and their implications, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 16,567-16,582, 2001.
55. Wdowinski, S., Y. Bock, J. Zhang, P. Fang, and J. Genrich, Southern California Permanent GPS Geodetic Array: Spatial filtering of daily positions for estimating coseismic and postseismic displacements induced by the 1992 Landers earthquake, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 18,057-18,071, 1997.
56. Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, Free software helps map and display data, Eos Trans. AGU, 79, 579, 1998.
57. Zhang, J., Y. Bock, H. Johnson, P. Fang, S. Williams, J. Genrich, S. Wdowinski, and J. Behr, Southern California permanent GPS geodetic array: Error analysis of daily position estimates and site velocities, J. Geophys. Res., 102, 18,035-18,055, 1997.
58. Zhang, Q., W. Zhu, and Y. Xiong, Global plate models incorporating the velocity field of ITRF96, Geophys. Res. Lett., 26, 2813-2816, 1999.