Detailed shallow geometry and vertical displacement estimates of the Maleme Fault Zone, New Zealand, using 2D and 3D georadar

Near Surface Geophysics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 155-161

  Tronicke, Jens ^a,c   Villamor, Pilar ^b   Green, Alan G ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FAULT DISPLACEMENT; FAULT GEOMETRY; FAULT ZONE; FAULTING; GRABEN; PLEISTOCENE; RADAR; TEPHRA; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 33745016975     PISSN: 15694445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3997/1873-0604.2005041     Document Type: Article

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