Rupture history of the whirinaki fault, an active normal fault in the taupo rift, New Zealand

New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 277-293

  Canora Catalán, Carolina ^a   Villamor, Pilar ^b   Berryman, Kelvin ^b   Martínez Díaz, José J ^a   Raen, Tracey ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^c Multiconsult AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Active normal fault; Paleoseismology; Recurrence interval; Single event displacement; Slip rate; Taupo Rift; Whirinaki Fault

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; DISPLACEMENT; NORMAL FAULT; RECURRENCE INTERVAL; RIFT ZONE; RUPTURE; SLIP RATE;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; TAUPO RIFT;

EID: 59149096414     PISSN: 00288306     EISSN: 11758791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288300809509866     Document Type: Article

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