Normal fault growth and linkage in the Whakatane Graben, New Zealand, during the last 1.3 Myr

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Taylor, Susanna K ^a   Bull, Jonathan M ^a   Lamarche, Geoffroy ^b   Barnes, Philip M ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fault growth; Neotectonics; Normal faulting

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL EVOLUTION; GRABEN; NEOTECTONICS; NORMAL FAULT; PLEISTOCENE; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMIC SURVEY;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; TAUPO VOLCANIC ZONE;

EID: 2542420825     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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