Tectonic implications of fault-scarp-derived volcaniclastic deposits on Macquarie Island: Sedimentation at a fossil ridge-transform intersection?

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 18-31

  Daczko, Nathan R ^a,b   Mosher, Sharon ^a   Coffin, Millard F ^c   Meckel, Timothy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fault scarps; Macquarie Island; Ridges; Sedimentology; Transform faults

Indexed keywords

SEAFLOORS; SILTSTONE; TECTONIC ABRASION; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSITS;

COASTAL ZONES; CORRELATION METHODS; DISINTEGRATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SEDIMENTATION; VOLCANOES;

TECTONICS;

ACTIVE FAULT; DEBRIS FLOW; FAULT SCARP; NEOGENE; TRANSFORM FAULT; TURBIDITE; VOLCANICLASTIC DEPOSIT;

MACQUARIE ISLAND; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 13244258319     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25469.1     Document Type: Article

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