The Rangipo fault, Taupo rift, New Zealand: An example of temporal slip-rate and single-event displacement variability in a volcanic environment

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 529-547

  Villamor, Pilar ^a   Van Dissen, Russell ^a   Alloway, Brent V ^a   Palmer, Alan S ^b   Litchfield, Nicola ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Active andesitic volcano; Active normal fault; Single event displacement variability; Slip rate variability; Taupo rift; Taupo volcanic zone; Volcano tectonic interactions

Indexed keywords

DISPLACEMENT VARIABILITY; SLIP RATE; VOLCANIC ACTIVITY;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

VOLCANOES;

ACTIVE FAULT; DISPLACEMENT; FAULT SLIP; NORMAL FAULT; RIFTING; SLIP RATE; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

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

EID: 34249060568     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26000.1     Document Type: Article

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