Surface breakthrough of a basement fault by repeated seismic slip episodes: The Ostler Fault, South Island, New Zealand

Tectonics

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Ghisetti, Francesca C ^a   Gorman, Andrew R ^a   Sibson, Richard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; CRETACEOUS; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DIP; FAULT GEOMETRY; NORMAL FAULT; PALEOCENE; PIEDMONT; REVERSE FAULT; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SEISMOTECTONICS; UPLIFT;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 39849093439     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007TC002146     Document Type: Article

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