Locating the deep extent of the plate boundary along the Alpine Fault zone. New Zealand: Implications for patterns of exhumation in the Southern Alps

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 434, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-14

  Furlong, Kevin P ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alpine fault; New Zealand; Plate tectonics; Strain localization; Transpression

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; SEISMOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; TECTONICS;

ALPINE FAULTS; DETACHMENT SURFACES; LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; NEW ZEALAND; PLATE KINEMATICS; STRAIN LOCALIZATIONS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSION;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; EXHUMATION; KINEMATICS; OROGENY; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE MOTION; PLATE TECTONICS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TRANSPRESSION;

ALPS; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 57449114007     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2434(01)     Document Type: Article

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