Paleoecological insights into subduction zone earthquake occurrence, eastern North Island, New Zealand

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 1051-1074

  Cochran, Ursula ^a   Berryman, Kelvin ^a   Zachariasen, Judith ^b   Mildenhall, Dallas ^a   Hayward, Bruce ^c   Southall, Kate ^c   Hollis, Chris ^a   Barker, Peter ^d   Wallace, Laura ^a   Alloway, Brent ^a   Wilson, Kate ^e  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b URS CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Geomarine Research   (New Zealand)

^d Barker Consulting   (New Zealand)

^e VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Accomodation space; Earthquakes; Hawke Bay; Holocene; Lachlan Fault; Mahia Peninsula; Microfossils; Sea level; Subduction zone; Subsidence; Tsunami; Wairoa

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC-DISLOCATION MODELS; LACHLAN FAULT; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VERTICAL TECTONIC DEFORMATION;

GEOCHRONOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; TECTONICS; TSUNAMIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EARTHQUAKE; HOLOCENE; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOECOLOGY; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; SUBSIDENCE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; LACHLAN FOLD BELT; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND;

EID: 33749026938     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25761.1     Document Type: Article

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